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Started by NicholeW., August 18, 2008, 02:25:33 PM

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August 18, 2008, 02:25:33 PM
Hard Times,  Bitch Magazine, reprinted from Wired, by Sarah Seltzer (March 2008)

At the New York Times Book Review, all the misogyny is fit to print

http://bitchmagazine.org/article/hard-times

The New York Times Book Review has never exactly embraced passionate advocacy—unless it was promoting Pynchon's and DeLillo's place in the postmodernist canon. Even worse, it has become the place where serious feminist books come to die— or more accurately, to be dismissed with the flick of a well-manicured postfeminist wrist.


Recently, Times editors—in both the daily paper and the Sunday section—have trotted out a particularly insidious formula for bashing feminist authors. First, hire a female reviewer to unleash misogynist tropes in her piece and then, lest she appear prejudiced against her own gender, throw in an illogical, contradictory statement about the importance of a less threatening version of feminism that isn't so "polarizing," "provocative," or "strident." 








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