Maureen Dowd, responding to criticism of her disgracefully sexist and content-free attacks on Hillary Clinton:
“From the time I began writing about politics,” Dowd said, “I have always played with gender stereotypes and mined them and twisted them to force the reader to be conscious of how differently we view the sexes.” Now, she said, “you are asking me to treat Hillary differently than I've treated the male candidates all these years, with kid gloves.”
Oh, yes, it's "we" who have a consuming obsession with the idea that all Democratic men are women and all Democratic women are men, not you. It's bad enough she's given a forum to write her witless nonsense, but I would appreciate it if she would leave me out of it. (And I'm willing to be perfectly consistent: I wish the Times were publishing columns about politics rather than columns apparently written for eight year-olds about Al Gore "practically lactating" too!)
--Scott Lemieux
