WE JUST can’t leave it alone. Writing about Hillary Clinton and her prospects for 2016 is just too delectable, too enticing, too historically epic in proportions that keeping it all alive until Mrs. Clinton decides is what any political writer worth his or her salt will do. You’re going to have to decide what’s worth [...]
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Freak Out Over Lena Dunham’s $3.7 Million Book Deal is Ageism
THE CATERWAULING is epic. It’s also highly revealing. Kudos to Dunham, who wouldn’t be coming under this scrutiny if she weren’t 20-something. This is ageism, splashed with Who Does This GIRL Think She Is? Even if they do break even or if somehow every single person who watched the premiere of Dunham’s show “Girls” buys [...]
Women Don’t Have Leading Voice in Our Own Stories
**UPDATED** THE WASHINGTON POST has done something inadvertently hilarious. The irony is thick, deep and wide for people like me, because I’ve been writing about this subject for years. They’ve featured a story in their Lifestyle section titled “Women aren’t principal news sources on women’s issues, 4th Estate analysis finds.” Guess who wrote the article. [...]
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