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As a graduate of Smith College, a regular blog reader (of blogs right, left, and center), and a practicing Catholic, I must say that I am very surprised that someone of John Edwards' apparent intelligence took this YOUNG (as she keeps reminding us) woman at all seriously.
I have not read the word "misogyny" so many times since my Women's Studies class, and certainly never have seen it applied so wrongly. Ms. Marcotte keeps referring to herself as a feminist (YOUNG! FEMALE!) as if that alone conveys intrinsic virtue. She assumes the mantle of martyrdom because (sob...sniffle...)people don't like her or her politics or her crude, talentless writings. She expresses dismay that anyone attack such a delicate hothouse flower as herself. This posturing is just embarrassing to legions of smart, talented, dedicated women who have tried to make this world better for men and women, in ways large and small, both publicly and privately.
Get over yourself, sister. Susan B. Anthony you are not. Amanda Marcotte represents herself, not the hordes of trembling young things she claims are now too afraid to present themselves to the political hiring authorities. Her retrograde, viciously ignorant anti-Catholic tirades speak for themselves. She attacked Catholics indulgently and gleefully, and is too spineless to admit the consequences. BTW, her "factual statements" about the Pope and anything else Catholic, i.e., the marriage preparation classes are, in fact, not factual, and are most definitely not funny. Her understanding of the history and theology of the Church are non-existent, yet her uninformed opinions are simply breathtaking in number. The Church doesn't exist to please Amanda Marcotte, nor to fit into any politically correct box.
Uneducated, uninformed, hate-filled people with a definite axe to grind and a permanent victimhood status have no place in a professional political campaign.
