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A guest post from Double X writer Jaclyn Friedman:
Last Tuesday, in the debut of Double X, Linda Hirshman said that the bloggers at Jezebel need to accept that they may be raped if
they’re going to insist on being such public sluts (I'm paraphrasing
here, but not as much as I wish I were). Latoya Peterson responded by
rightly pointing out that screeds like Hirshman's give feminism a bad name. The internets erupted. And now, just what we needed, the Observer has swooped in to Explain It All To Us, clucking their editorial tongue about the whole "infighting" mess.
Missing from this entire kerfuffle is one crucial point. Women aren't... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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A guest post from Double X writer Latoya Peterson:
You know, screeds like Linda Hirshman's in Double X are why I waffle so much about identifying with the feminist label.
It isn't even that Linda Hirshman is using every ounce of her online persona to... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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Apparently, if you launch a website for women in 2009, the most
important question is whether or not it's feminist. At least, that's
what you'd think, judging by today's launch of DoubleX.com. Only, the funny thing is, I thought feminism was dead. I mean, didn't we kill it already?
At best, it seems odd to judge a 21st century production by the politics of a decades-old movement, the relevance of which... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)