Kenneth Anderson:

I just read through a couple of Judith Warner Domestic Disturbances posts over at the New York Times blogs. America’s “most embarrassing online columnist,” as John Podhoretz says? Who knows. There’s lots of competition.
More interesting to me, as a professor who studies media economics, as well as one of the declining number of out-of-NYC home delivery subscribers, and – God help me – shareholder … (Just a few shares, folks, held as an incentive to get me to follow the company as an academic; I am not, as the assassin guy says in Serenity, a complete moron) … more interesting to me is the question of whether a blogger like Judith Warner actually gets paid for these blog posts.
What’s the economic model here?
Warner cranks out mommy-feminism-lite for the New York City professional-female-mommy-staying-home crowd. You know, the kind whose ‘wombiness’, we might say, combined with their ideological deportment qualifies them, in Professor Wendy Doniger’s view, as actual females. That’s as distinguished, naturally, from that special sub-breed, what we might henceforth call (following Professor Doniger’s announcement of Sarah Palin’s “pretense that she is a woman”) Palin-females. True, Palin-females probably account for 98% of the women in the United States, irrespective of how they vote, and Doniger’s remarks are, as these discussions pretty much always turn out to be, an expression of outraged class-consciousness and class-privilege cross-dressed as gender. I guess if you’re the holder of a well-endowed chair in a divinity school it’s easier miraculously to conceive of femaleness as being an immaculately feminist and metaphysical and politically-constructed womb, rather than the merely physical one that Palin has put to such thorough use. Get thee to a nunnery and off the ticket, etc.

There’s more.