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August 21st, 2008
On Angry Women and Really, Really Angry Women
by Jeff Guhin

From Slate:

None of this has anything to do with the legitimate outrage most of us felt about sexism in the coverage of the Clinton campaign. Women have many reasons to be angry in America, and I am not suggesting that all political discourse must happen in hushed voices and bowties. It is not insignificant that Hillary supporters felt disrespected, shut down, and unheard in the primary process. But as Taylor Marsh has pointed out, they’ve now become victims of the same sexist media machine that turned Clinton herself into a parody of a madwoman. They have fallen prey to an “echo chamber that promises hope, but only delivers deceit by offering claims of something that will not come.” They are given unlimited airtime, so long as they continue to threaten to topple the entire edifice of the Democratic Party in pursuit of some ephemeral, unreachable sweet revenge.

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