Letters to the Editor
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Katha Pollitt
I'll tell you what has feminists' knickers in a twist about Katha Pollitt: She told the truth. If there's one thing women, who hold the word "feminist" up like a mask at a costume ball to hide their insecurities hate, it's someone who blows their cover.
I read Katha Pollitt's Internet stalker article in the New Yorker when it came out. After I finished it, I looked up her address in New York City and mailed her a handwritten note telling her how brave and amazing and brilliant her article was. I was in complete awe at her honesty and, rather than recoiling from her embarassing revelations (as I did when I read Daphne Merkin's spanking story), I respected her even more. We all should. Americans love a facade--a false, attractive front that conceals the often bitter, grim, messy realities that ALL of our lives contain--not just respected, liberal journalists.