http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/boo...uCYVz15O/0
"a woman whom Gloria Steinem once blurbed and Ms. Magazine supported — a self-described hardcore feminist: “I was one of the demanding ones, combating injustice and inequality on the front lines.
They were beliefs she was raised on. Her father, Nelson Valdes, is a Marxist professor who emigrated from Cuba. And her mother, a light-haired and blue-eyed beauty queen, “looked like Jayne Mansfield but favored Jane Fonda in politics.”
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"He calls her “darlin’ ” and holds the door for her, which secretly “turned me on.”
"And though he’s so wrong, the woman who describes herself as “mean, combative and angry” is suddenly reduced to a giggling, teenage girl in the presence of such rugged manliness."
"The cowboy begins to train his new girlfriend — once such a spitfire — like he would a dog or a horse, he tells her.
“Atta girl,” he clicks at her when she does something right. When she makes a mistake — say by getting drunk and picking a fight with him — he freezes her out, teaching her “a lesson.”
"a woman whom Gloria Steinem once blurbed and Ms. Magazine supported — a self-described hardcore feminist: “I was one of the demanding ones, combating injustice and inequality on the front lines.
They were beliefs she was raised on. Her father, Nelson Valdes, is a Marxist professor who emigrated from Cuba. And her mother, a light-haired and blue-eyed beauty queen, “looked like Jayne Mansfield but favored Jane Fonda in politics.”
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"He calls her “darlin’ ” and holds the door for her, which secretly “turned me on.”
"And though he’s so wrong, the woman who describes herself as “mean, combative and angry” is suddenly reduced to a giggling, teenage girl in the presence of such rugged manliness."
"The cowboy begins to train his new girlfriend — once such a spitfire — like he would a dog or a horse, he tells her.
“Atta girl,” he clicks at her when she does something right. When she makes a mistake — say by getting drunk and picking a fight with him — he freezes her out, teaching her “a lesson.”