Women as Tropes

The NY Times is a repeat competitor in the let's shove women into boxes olympics. This week's entry: the Magazine's article about people who remain abstinent into their teens...people at Harvard (gasp!).

Melinda Henneberger* gets to the heart of my complaints on XX factor. In the Times's oh-so-clever way, they are able to stereotype subliminally. But we are on to you, gray lady.

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* surprisingly, this is about the fourth time in a row that I have agreed with her.