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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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Emily, I wish I had amnesia. Because when push came to shove, they played the race card, repeatedly, and called it the fun part. And after that, all the policy mastery in the world couldn't put her back into the running as a role model for my daughter Read More...
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To go back a couple of steps, but still in the general XX spirit of today, I think: Hanna , you've put your finger on what I've been thinking/worrying about lately—which is not the candidates themselves, actually, so much as their followers. I'm not sure Read More...
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Dahlia and Melinda , here's what I don't get. Yes, there have been moments of excess and misfire in Hillary's campaign--gender traitor, J'accuse moments. I haven't liked them, either. (And this latest from Erica Jong is a doozy.) But it wasn't all Robin Read More...
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Emily and Hanna , I’m with Melinda on this one. Pity is the least interesting political impulse around and the faster we banish it the better. Last night I had dinner with my former Fairy Slate -mother, Margo Howard —a second-wave feminist in feather Read More...
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When Hillary Clinton tugs on me, Emily and Hanna , it is usually not in a good way. Sometimes I do feel sorry for her, but I can't imagine casting a pity vote for president. Nor do I want to be guilted, frightened, fooled, or worn down to the point that Read More...
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Emily, I'm with you. Last night, despite the hoarse, bordering-on-Howard-Dean-breakdown speech, I felt a wave of gratitude toward Hillary. Even Maureen Dowd felt it. She managed to get through nearly two-thirds of her column this morning and keep her Read More...
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When Hillary lost Iowa I started to regret my Obama allegiance (though I recovered by the New York primary) because I'm a sucker for the underdog. But now I find Hillary-as-loser a major turnoff. She really hasn't mastered the art of the concession speech. Read More...
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When I lived in Seattle, I was a regular at Cineoke , where participants sing along, karaoke-style, to songs from movie musicals. My big number was “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina,” from Evita . I’d bring audience members up on stage to serve as my descamisados Read More...
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Hillary Clinton lost women in both Virginia and Maryland tonight, and not by a little; nearly 60 percent chose Barack Obama. (Or Oback Barama, as former Maryland Rep. Kweisi Mfume just called him on MSNBC, which I'm sure made all those who've ever mispronounced Read More...
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Since the Iowa caucuses, I've been feeling the Hillary tug. Most of the women I've talked to in the last couple of months have felt it, too: Even if they weren't sure they'd vote for Hillary, they were rooting for her on some level. They wanted her to Read More...
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