Hungry for Howley? Try Slate’s XX Factor!

by Will Wilkinson on March 11, 2009

If you’ve been missing your daily dose of the withering wit of Kerry Howley ever since she stopped blogging at Hit & Run, have I got good news for you! You can now satisfy your hankering for your favorite cosmotarian feminist at Slate’s XX Factor blog (one X beyond superpowered mutants, one X short of hardcore porn), where Kerry is now a regular contributor. Today, Kerry tells Michele Obama where to stuff her nutrition facts.

dgm

Great to see that Kerry will share her wisdom over at the XX Factor. Having the First Lady give us domestic blow-by-blows is a further attempt to Oprah-ize of our daily lives, this time via the White House. Sadly, millions will hang on every word (just as they would follow Michelle if she Twittered about this crap).

Someone! Please make it stop!

lyca

Great piece. I knew something was freaky about the Michelle Obama article -- the affected domesticity, the single-minded calorie focus, the idea that personal food choices are a patriotic duty -- but I couldn't quite put my finger on it, and Kerry nailed it.

Good for your son. He sounds like a smart kid.

DWAnderson

I thought this post was pretty funny. My wife thought it was a bad precedent to set while still engaged.

robertopia

Great piece. But, my 17-year-old son suggested that “women’s rights”, like “Civil Rights”, should be referred to as “individual rights”…full stop.