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One "change" that I'd like to see is the end of the idea that grown, intelligent, accomplished women are, deep down, no more mature than junior high school students . Samantha Power, the Harvard professor who was forced to resign from Barack Obama's presidential campaign last spring after ...
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Eschaton — Washington While the women-lack-emotional-maturity take is correct, it's also the case that the Washington press tends to write about just about everybody this way. I don't know if it's because everyone in the media is 11 years old, because everyone in politics is 11 years old, or both. It's very strange.

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Eschaton — Washington While the women-lack-emotional-maturity take is correct, it's also the case that the Washington press tends to write about just about everybody this way. I don't know if it's because everyone in the media is 11 years old, because everyone in politics is 11 years old, or both. It's very strange.

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