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Steinem was gingerly dismissive with the sentence in “Women Are Never Front-Runners” that Knox had first objected to: “What worries me is that some women, perhaps especially younger ones, hope to deny or escape the sexual caste system; thus Iowa women over 50 and 60, who disproportionately supported Senator Clinton, proved once again that women are the one group that grows more radical with age.”

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

If “Women Are Never Front-Runners” was received in some feminist quarters with grateful relief, in others it was reviled with a comparable degree of intensity and viewed as a public reopening of deep wounds that had never fully healed.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

Steinem was gingerly dismissive with the sentence in “Women Are Never Front-Runners” that Knox had first objected to: “What worries me is that some women, perhaps especially younger ones, hope to deny or escape the sexual caste system; thus Iowa women over 50 and 60, who disproportionately supported Senator Clinton, proved once again that women are the one group that grows more radical with age.”

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

If “Women Are Never Front-Runners” was received in some feminist quarters with grateful relief, in others it was reviled with a comparable degree of intensity and viewed as a public reopening of deep wounds that had never fully healed.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

Steinem was gingerly dismissive with the sentence in “Women Are Never Front-Runners” that Knox had first objected to: “What worries me is that some women, perhaps especially younger ones, hope to deny or escape the sexual caste system; thus Iowa women over 50 and 60, who disproportionately supported Senator Clinton, proved once again that women are the one group that grows more radical with age.”

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

If “Women Are Never Front-Runners” was received in some feminist quarters with grateful relief, in others it was reviled with a comparable degree of intensity and viewed as a public reopening of deep wounds that had never fully healed.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

If “Women Are Never Front-Runners” was received in some feminist quarters with grateful relief, in others it was reviled with a comparable degree of intensity and viewed as a public reopening of deep wounds that had never fully healed.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

Steinem was gingerly dismissive with the sentence in “Women Are Never Front-Runners” that Knox had first objected to: “What worries me is that some women, perhaps especially younger ones, hope to deny or escape the sexual caste system; thus Iowa women over 50 and 60, who disproportionately supported Senator Clinton, proved once again that women are the one group that grows more radical with age.”

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

In a recent op-ed column in the New York Times about the Obama vs. Clinton contest for the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States ( "Women Are Never Front-Runners," January 8, 2008), Ms. Steinem's lifelong advocacy for gender equality appears to have become politically transformed into an advocacy of gender preferential treatment or implicit "female entitlement."

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