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Last night I watched The Contender , a movie about the nomination of a female vice-president. It's mostly concerned with post-Lewinsky prurience and takes sexual politics to an absurd level to make that point (gang-bang allegations? Really?) but left Read More...
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Evidence today of the persistent nature of the significance of race in the campaign: The percentage of young people who say they're unwilling to vote for a black candidate is 22 percent, according to one poll, and not dropping. Get it together, 18- to Read More...
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In editing a piece about the election this morning, for the first time this season, I didn't replace "them" in a sentence referring back to the president with "him or her." We've only got XYs in contention now, and so "him" will do. It's a small thing, Read More...
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Hanna and Dahlia , I'll play defense. I completely agree that the sexism vs. racism face-off is useless and also destructive — I'm with Kim forevermore on that one. But Hillary is right, the response to her candidacy has unleashed sexist and misogynist Read More...
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Nine-year-old son, appropos of nothing: "When I get married, I plan to have the wedding in Hawaii." Mother: "That sounds nice, but what if your fiancee wants to get married on a snowy mountaintop? How would you choose between the two?" Son, in all seriousness: Read More...
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