The Absent Backlash

I was recently interviewed by The Guardian's Women's Editor Kira Cochrane, who was writing a piece on misogynist attacks on Sarah Palin—and why there isn't a bigger uproar about one of the world's highest-profile female politicians being subjected to appallingly ugly smears based on her sex. (Once again, the foreign press is doing a better job covering American politics than our own press is.)

The piece is now up here—and it's good. Very good. Go read.

And note the beautiful lack of "counterbalance" provided by some douche dishing up servings of that's not misogyny and feminists are hysterics. Amazing.

On a side note, I'm always leery of doing interviews (for reasons that have been well-documented in these pages), and I always read with trepidation any article in which I know I've been quoted. This was the first time I read something and thought, "Wow, this sounds exactly like what I said!" So megathanks to Kira Cochrane, who totally, totally roxxx.

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