Google DEEZ NUTS, CaitlinI'm sure that I, being the whingeing, harridan feminist that I am, have said this more than once, but Caitlin Flanagan is a dumb cunt: "She’s got a shtick: attacking other women. Catfight sells. Nasty, ad hominem, bitchy attacks on other women sell magazines. She’s made her name by this stuff."(No, that quote isn't referring to yours truly, though I kinda wish it were. Where's MY piece of the pie, Mr. Remnick? How many more goddamned buttons do I have to sew on those tattersalls of yours before you throw me a bone?) (P.S. I hate everyone named Caitlin.) (P.P.S. My brother-in-arms, possibly the only person who dislikes CF more than I do and has the energy to dissect her arguments rather than hurling invectives willy-nilly, has weighed in.) Posted by Dana at 01:18 PM
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Shit from an Old Notebook(P.S. I hate everyone named Caitlin.)
Even Caitlin Cary? 'Cause she's had nothing but nice things to say about you...
...or I'm sure she would, anyway.
Posted by: bmarkey at June 2, 2004 01:42 PMNot unlike David Brooks, she could also be called a liberal’s conservative, because her social conservatism is essentially about mocking liberal pieties, while still supporting many of the values that inform them.
I may not even have a dog in this fight, but that sounds like a good thing to me.
As far as shtick goes, every pundit's got a shtick, every writer, every blogger, myself included. It's part of the drill.
Posted by: jonmc at June 2, 2004 01:43 PMHer opinions strike me as having nothing to do with reality or the world in which actual people live. I suspect that one day the "head of the household" may decide to stone her to death for baring her ankle in public.
Posted by: nutterbutter at June 2, 2004 02:44 PMGoing by the article you linked to (I have neither the time nor the inclination to read a 10,000 word essay by anybody today, so I have no first-hand experience with her writing), this Flanagan person sounds like one of those "Hey everybody, look at ME! Aren't I transgressive? Tee-hee!" types. You know, the way Ann Coulter drops a turd in the punchbowl and tells everyone it's a party favor. Same idea. And if that is the case, maybe it's best to just ignore her until she goes away?
Posted by: bmarkey at June 2, 2004 07:31 PMwhy does this whole issue remind me of blowjobs?
[that was as close to a thoughtful political comment as i can get these days...fucking catalogs]