Drawing a connection to the Safety Pin Box (patronized by at least one woman rabbi, and discussed here earlier; see also Jesse Singal’s critique for New York magazine), Slate’s Christina Cauterucci highlights another new project along the same lines: The Complicity Cleanse: “Billed as an ‘anti-oppression diet,’ the cleanse runs from Jan. 1 to Jan…
Full disclosure #1: I am a member of Pantsuit Nation, that Hillary Clinton adoring Facebook group that has, more than anything else in the past few months, served as testimony to the viral power of the internet and the upside to armchair activism. Full disclosure #2: I loved (past-tense) Pantsuit Nation. For weeks, just after…
I am not now and never have been a member of the Pantsuit Nation. I don’t even really own a pantsuit, but can merely combine a navy blazer from one store and similarly navy slacks from another if this is needed, which, to be fair, it rarely is. I had, however, known of the private…
The Forward is getting slammed on social media for posting a story about Ivanka Trump’s kugel. On the Facebook group Pantsuit Nation NYC, a poster referred to the article as a “steaming pile of you know what.” “Honestly, shame on the Forward,” one commenter wrote. “It’s offensive in principle,” another wrote. Readers argued that the…
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