WRONG ABOUT HILLARY

Ithaca, NY

In response to Katha Pollitt's "HRC: Can't Get No Respect" ["Subject to Debate," Nov. 20]: Sorry, Katha. Feminism today is much more complicated than you let it be. And you haven't done your homework on Hillary--she says yes to cluster bombs, yes to Israel's bombing of Lebanon, yes to curtailing abortion, yes to a constitutional amendment against flag-burning, no to gay marriage. She has one of the ten most conservative voting records in the Senate. You need to do your research before you claim Hillary is a good thing for any of us. You rant against Code Pink as though they were the same as the right wing in this country. Shame. And let us take the past forty years of feminisms, as you mention, and realize that your old-fashioned liberal feminism, which claims that a female President will give women power like men, is deeply flawed. Most feminists across the globe know better than this.

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