“Women are not an interest group. You should not be treated that way,” Barack Obama said on Friday morning. It was an admirable sentiment, but the statement was disingenuous on its face. Women are an interest group, and will be until the last vestiges of gender discrimination are eradicated from American society. And Obama, by holding a forum on women and the economy, was treating them precisely that way.
I have a story in this week’s dead tree edition out today looking at the seeming plethora of GOP women candidates this year. Yes, there are a lot of high profile races: Niki Haley, Sharron Angle, Linda McMahon, Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzlies.” And there have been a record number of Republican women who’ve run for [...]
I believe Alex will have more to say about this later but here’s Sarah Palin’s newest web video. Her words are mostly excerpted from a speech she gave to the pro-life group, the Susan B. Anthony List. She talks about her “Mama Grizzlies” and “Pink Elephants” stampeding into Washington November 2. But, as Marc Ambinder [...]
I am shocked and saddened to learn today of the sudden death of Deborah Howell. She was a source of inspiration, having made her way up in this business at a time when the newsroom was hostile territory for women who didn’t want to spend their careers writing wedding announcements. Because of her, it was [...]
Having highlighted Charlotte Allen’s disastrous op-ed for the Post’s Outlook section last Sunday, I wanted to follow up with this good dissection by Post ombudsman Deborah Howell of the paper’s thinking behind the story (not to mention Katha Pollitt’s smart critique from Friday). Kudos to Warren Bass for getting it right, though I’m still kind [...]
