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Date Posted: 11:10:20 01/25/05 Tue
Author: No name
Subject: Re: feminist backlash
In reply to: 's message, "feminist backlash" on 09:41:54 01/25/05 Tue

>Face facts: if AW wasn't a strong, ass-kicking woman,
>most of this whining psychobabble would slow to a
>dribble. The bottom line, from someone who worked with
>her for years, is this: if you worked hard, relished
>journalism, produced good, solid stories and gave as
>good as you got -- you got along with Allison. If you
>didn't, god help you. Newsrooms aren't for the faint
>of heart. The pay sucks, the hours are unpredictable
>at best and the pressure is enormous. It takes a
>strong stomach and an iron-clad will to survive. But
>most of all, you gotta love what you do. And there's
>no one out there who can ever say that AW didn't love
>newspapers. She got as excited over a big fat story as
>the reporter breaking it. If it was worth it, she
>fought for it -- and for the reporter. She had balls.
>To survive -- as a 5-2 woman in an often poisonous,
>male-dominated corporate stew -- she had to. And that,
>my dears, is what really did her in. Balls. Plain and
>simple as a first year nut graph.


Oy. Now I've heard it all.

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