Sounds like a personal problem

The Washington Post’s Sunday Outlook section is beginning to resemble a feminist message board. Two weeks ago, it published a ridiculous piece by someone calling herself Dana L, who blamed President Bush for the fact that she had an abortion. And this week, a retired philosophy professor named Linda Hirshman drones on endlessly about herself and the criticism she received for arguing that women who quit their jobs to stay home with their children are letting themselves (and Hirshman’s cause) down.

We all have problems, but isn’t this kind of stuff best left to one’s support group — or one’s psychiatrist?

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