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Tuesday, November 8, 2005 12:00 AM

Yes, Maureen Dowd is necessary

You can love her or hate her, but you can't dismiss her -- or her inflammatory new book on gender politics.

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  • Tuesday, November 8, 2005 03:44 AM

    Yes, Maureen Dowd is necessary

    I hate this book without having read it because it gave our local paper the opportunity to print, with a large eye-catching picture, another typical Kathleen Parker "feminism is the root of all evil in modern society/feminists hate men" article. Like Dowd, Parker's articles are so illogical and all over the place that a rebuttle is almost impossible (and who has the time).

    When I read anti-feminist tracks like Dowd's (she may not think they are anti-feminist but if that is what 95% of the readers conclude, well, its a duck) it makes me so weary. Much of feminism never made it out of the gate. It has been trumped by the greed of the 80's, and the religious fundamentalism of the 90's and the complete, dispicable dumbing down of the 2000's.

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