Irin Carmon contends, contra Powers and Gillespie, that left-wing commentators who say sexist things get pushback in a fashion that doesn't happen on the right:
Powers claims in one breath that they’re allowed to go on insulting women but then says that Erica Jong got rudely mocked by Matt Taibbi for … calling him out for sexism. She fails to mention how Keith Olbermann and Michael Moore were targeted by a feminist campaign demanding an apology for their dismissal of the women who accused Julian Assange of rape. Or how much fire Chris Matthews took from feminists — including in this space – for how he talked about Hillary Clinton. It would take about eight seconds of Googling (I’m counting the typing) to find women on the left excoriating Bill Maher for sexist insults aimed at Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. Powers throws these women a bone at the very end — but then dismisses them.
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