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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Hillary Clinton, Name-Calling and Why You Should Care

In the NY Times today Peggy Orenstein spells it out for you and tries to distract her 4-year-old daughter from it. Orenstein makes it simple, not polemic, not post-feminist or pre-feminist. The name-calling. The witch, bitch, etc. rhyming. It's misogyny and it's aimed at all of us, whether you like Hillary or not.