Letters to the Editor
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I wasn't impressed but....
I thought the screaming it evoked in response (and the 'how could you', or better yet, 'how could you print it') was also a bit much.
I mean, she has a right to think it and write it and the Washington Post has a right to print it. What people have a right to do is, well, decide that it was too bad to even be a piece of satire (and, I have news for Charlotte Allen, it doesn't work as a piece of satire, she would have been better off sticking to her guns) and decide not to read the Post again. That is really your weapon, if you want one.
In my opinion, based on the stuff that gets printed in the Post these days, her mistake was in going further than calling out Clinton. If she'd stuck to calling Clinton and her campaign a disgrace to women, most feminists would have wanted to give her a parade (despite the fact that Allen is a Republican who wouldn't want to be caught dead with them). She made the fatal mistake of saying other nasty things about women in general, and saying women who swoon at Obama rallies remind her of teenyboppers at concerts. That's when she alienated the 'audience'.
I'm not saying I agree with anything she said. I'm just giving her advice, so she can avoid these types of dust-ups in the future. She can take it or leave it.