Carrie who?

I'm delighted you buried the hatchet with that XES guy, but I bet he still won't let you in!!!

Being dissed by the Nation is major! Congrats, kid!

A gay Italian American from Brooklyn is "waspish?" YOU Are misogynist? OK then.

Yeah, they really missed the boat on that one.

The Nation may be liberal but they've never been good on gay issues. What idiot wrote that? Their ditzy socialite editor Vandenheuvel?

Katha Pollitt

Do they mean "waspish" because you've got a stinger?

Surprise surprise.

Does anyone really read the Nation?

I might imagine the good conservatives having a "thou shalt not kill" pageant to strut their bible thumping stuff. But then ....who would be the contestants?

Just as Michael isn't THE voice of the Village Voice,
Katha Pollitt isn't THE voice of the Nation.
Both magazines carry a wide variety of opinion.

"In The Nation, of all places, they talk about..."
When did one writer become a "they"?

Michael, she's a professional writer on feminist issues. I'd guess that gives her a different perspective on your humor about Miss California than most of us guys. I thought it was all funny. Carrie's little brother and all the other trolls that harrassed you here for weeks seemed perturbed.

The article was a pretty serious one for her,
about the terrorist murder of Dr. George Tiller.

Making fun of any womans boobs is probably a red flag for those broads. Imagine if you'd been sitting across from Rachel Maddow instead of Keith - would you have used the same jokes? That would take some big balls. (I love Rachel.)

That wasn't much of a slap at you anyway -
two words ain't enough for feudin'.
Compare those two words to the deserved bitch slap she gave "Andrew Sullivan, who knows as much about women's reproductive lives as I know about soliciting bareback sex on the Internet..."

Giorgio: "they've never been good on gay issues."
Yeah - they only put out one Queer issue a year, totally devoted to gay stuff (like the Village Voice does). Their gay film critic, Stuart Klawans, is one of the best.

"A professional writer on feminist issues" is defending a beauty pagant contestant??? Shouldn't she be blasting the whole process rather than attack those who make fun of it and its hypocrisies?

Being feminist (or black, or whatever your oppressed affiliation is) gives you a license to be homophobic, or dumb, or selfish? Then again, it's the Nation, living proof that "conservative left" need not be an oxymoron.

Stuart Klawans is gay? He's gay-friendly, but don't think he's actually a 'mo. Where'd you get that?

They do a gay issue now? Who knew. Since I stopped subscribing a while back (couldn't stand the Democratic Party groupie politics) I guess I've missed this.

I used to write for The Nation, mostly gay-themed pieces. I had 2 editors who were supportive but Navasky and some of the other key people definitely were not. As one editor openly said at a meeting I attended,"there's a somewhat narrow view here of what is 'political,'" i.e., meaning mainly economic and race issues, as well as electoral politics.

Pollitt's a good example of a straight feminist woman who's borderline homophobic. I'm still pissed at her for trashing James Purdy because her delicate sensibilities were offended by gay and sadomasochistic scenes in his novels.

Michael I admire your restraint.

Some women are just cunts. And it's high time that was pointed out.

i'm with David E. You no longer have to defend yourself, Mr. M.

The hypocrisy and the irony that you so cleverly (and often) pointed out only flew over the heads of the ignorant and bigoted. And who better to speak on the behalf of those gayhating misogynists than a dumb bimbo with big (fake) boobs and an even bigger mouth.

and as for the freakazoid: some things are just unforgivable. someone should demote him to barback.

Some third-rate film critics who have nothing better to do than post on the internet all day are just cunts!

Someone told me yesterday that he was surprised Pieces was such a hot spot. Hours later a good friend of mine informed me that there was a follow up of the original story.

I recently started a new body of work that deals with my social difficulties. I am almost tempted to call it the Freakazoid Series. Hopefully I'll run into you again before my next art show so I can invite you in person. There will be Diet Coke and no ID checking at the door.

When I saw you at Pieces, I did say that maybe next time you will write something nice about me. I guess "young" will do. These days, it seems to outweigh smart or talented anyway.

And as for Sloan: get a life idiot, will you.