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"Hillary's voter base consists of middle-aged to elderly white women who identify with her caustic, stubborn, bulldog resilience."

By Ann Althouse

Says Camille Paglia, who observes ? as I have on many occasions (I insert Paglia-style) ? that Hillary is a poor example of feminist heroism because her political success has thus far "glaringly been a subset to her husband's success."

Hillary's recent remarks about politics as a "boys' club" resistant to uppity women was sheer demagoguery. By progressing farther than any woman presidential candidate, she has become a role model for future aspirants. But by attaching herself so blatantly to anti-male rhetoric - particularly in view of her debt to her husband - she is espousing a retrograde brand of feminism no longer applicable to the US.

If Hillary loses, batten the hatches against a mass resurrection of paranoid, paleo-feminist martyrs, counting their wounds and wailing at the blood-red moon.

Fortunately, if Hillary loses, she'll lose to a black man, which will make it a lot harder for critiques like that to work. And those young feminists who love to cry misogyny ? aren't they attached to Obama?

Full post as published by Althouse on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).