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It's late, I'm going to bed.

But props to Barry Deutsch for joining Webcomics Nation with his excellent Hereville. Go read if you have not already.

UPDATE: Further props to Barry. He, too, did a cartoon responding to Gloria Steinem's op-ed column in the NY Times.

Too Sense Blog joins a rising chorus of responses to Steinem's racism-vs.-sexism argument:

.... women don't stop being white because they're women. And Hillary Clinton has not lost her access to white privilege because she is a woman. The current media narrative, even as Obama takes the lead in the polls, is so utterly familiar: White is substance, black is style. She's the real deal, he's the flash in the pan. She's "competent" while Obama is merely inspiring. He is a good show, but not "presidential" as old fat white dude Andy Rooney would say.

Steinem embraces this narrative, because adressing white privilige would complicate the mantle of victimhood she is attempting to drape herself with. Yes, it is very true that the media has been unfair to Hillary Clinton...but she has yet to be accused of being a Muslim radical in disguise. That accusation would hold as much truth leveled at Hillary as it does directed at Obama, but he's black, so the "Madrassa" story sticks.

The whole post is worth reading, btw.

UPDATE: Fulfilling her role as Gloria Steinem's bizarro world counterpart, Camille Paglia offers her sexist analysis of Hillary Clinton's "sadomasochistic" psyche as part of her justification for voting for Barak Obama.

UPDATE UPDATE: I'm just posting this stuff as I come across it. But Frances Kissling's "Why I'm Still Not for Hillary Clinton" is truly worth reading.

Speaking of white privilege, I'm following the conversation over at Daily Cartoonist regarding a plan by several syndicated African American cartoonists (including Cartoonists With Attitude member Keith Knight) to publish a similar cartoon on the same day. The idea is to make fun of the habit of newspaper editors to lump all comic strips created by black cartoonists as "black strips" regardless of the actual content of the strip. For some strange reason, the Daily Cartoonist has called it a "sit-in" which tends to distort (unintentionally) the purpose of the protest. As Cory Thomas puts it, "I think 'sit-in' is making this seem a lot more militant and mirthless than it actually is."

BTW - Until now I had not heard of Cory Thomas. His "Watch Your Head" is incredibly well drawn and pretty amusing. So, yay, new discovery for me!

Without disputing the concerns of the protest, I should add that the chances of new material by cartoonists of all stripes would be greatly enhanced were newspaper editors not so beholden to zombie strips like, oh, I dunno, Blondie?