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What's the most amazing thing about this New York Magazine article, "The Feminist Reawakening: Hillary Clinton and the fourth wave"?

By Ann Althouse

This piece, by Amanda Fortini, is all about the malignant misogyny against Hillary Clinton:

The egregious and by now familiar potshots are too numerous (and tiresome) to recount....

Why doesn?t our culture take sexism seriously?....

The past few months have been like an extended consciousness-raising session...

But look closely. There's something very important that isn't even mentioned! Bill Clinton! Hillary Clinton isn't your classic feminist heroine, fighting to make it in a man's world. She's a woman who leveraged herself into position in a very old-fashioned way, through a man, even when her use of that man required her to fend off other women and turn a blind eye toward sexual harassment. If you don't put that in the picture, your explication of the problem lacks credibility. Hillary has done what was expedient, and crying sexism now just happens to be expedient. Yes, we will have to study her case forever in trying to understand feminism, but this article is slanted for political effect and cannot be read as any sort of serious contemplation of the problems of women.

Full post as published by Althouse on April 15, 2008 (boomark / email).