I wondered where she went, that snarky chick, the one who started the political blog Wonkette. Such a clever girl, too elusive to categorize, having written the kind of blessays capable of inspiring love or hate and little in between; so deliciously low, left leaning and deeply satirical; american style.
Although, nice to know Wonkette still lurches lovingly leftward in gloriously trashy isolation, written by another, still pretty crass and not too dissimilar from its British comic cousin VIZ; always a good giggle. I re-tweet as oft as possible.
Soooo, Ms. Cox now writes for US magazines I don't read like GQ and Playboy, but Ana Marie Cox also blogs on The Guardian of all places, a bit curious, she's moderate to right wing isn't she? Or much ado about issues...
Oh well, who cares in this random day and age; practically all points of reference are too easily eschewed in the no-brow political and cultural labyrinth that is social media.
Still, too few females. Alas, this week brings another major move, Washington Post now boasts She The People, written by Melinda Henneberger, author of If They Only Listened To Us.
A review of her book only highlights how deeply we need more women with a political voice..
Soon after the 2004 presidential election, veteran reporter Melinda Henneberger set out across the country to listen to women of all ages and occupations express their strong opinions on the major issues of our time. Over eighteen months she spoke in depth and at length with more than two hundred women in twenty states, from Massachusetts to Arizona and Oregon to Texas. She discovered how unheard women feel, how ignored and disregarded by both major parties and by most politicians.
Listening to women all over the nation -- not only on what are traditionally thought of as "women's issues" but on issues of paramount importance to all Americans -- Henneberger shines a light on what women voters are thinking and how that translates into how and for whom they vote.
The issues that these women focused on were Iraq, abortion, the environment, globalization (and job loss), and corruption (and lack of trust) in the government and the entire electoral process. Again and again these women of all ages, social classes, and regions returned to the matter of authenticity. And they came back again and again to their commonly held feeling that neither party takes any genuine interest in their actual lives, that politicians across the board seem, as a young waitress in Sacramento put it, "to be talking about people who don't exist."
