The XX Factor: What women really think.

Enough

Amen Rosa. But I can’t help but think that every moment we spend talking about a vice presidential candidate who refuses to talk to us is a moment in which we fall into the trap of Palinography – the cult of obsessively telling and retelling Palin’s story in lieu of discussing anything that matters. A frequent Slate contributor emailed today asking what would happen if everyone here just agreed not to mention Sarah Palin again until she says or does something worth covering. Would traffic plummet? Or would readers agree that after 13 days of media navel-gazing (to which I have massively overcontributed, by the way) about whether and when and how we might talk about a (gasp!) female political candidate who can’t be bothered to talk to us is really quite enough?