Litmus Test

But you do need a similar world view — I never in a million years would have picked my husband on a dating app. He loves baseball. I despise all sports. He is a perfectionist. I am a half-asser. He doesn’t read novels at all. I write them. His favorite pastime is recording music. I have a tin ear…

This thread was originally published October, 2017 — Someone said at dinner, “Sally, do these women understand what a white feminist/privileged position they’re taking on litmus tests?” I said I touched on it but I try to keep my arguments about facts and straight logic, and I don’t want to be performative. She said, “THEY’RE being performative!” And…

Women and girls the world over know this scene: what it feels like, and what it means. Depending upon our specific situation, we sit in a bathroom, usually on a toilet, shaking with hope or fear. Hyper-aware that an unmistakably pivotal moment in our lives faces us, we summon the…

There is no doubting that Bernie Sanders has created a personal ‘litmus test’ of purity that any liberal candidate must pass and in doing so, he is confirming the same actions of the past, which has been to hand elections over to Republicans. This type of behavior is not new…

Every time a Republican is up for a legal nomination a question about settled law is asked of them. Some may think that settled law is one that we do question anymore. I think that we as Americans think that everything in the constitution is something we do not question…

“Liberal legislators are holding up Gov. Cuomo’s nomination of an 83-year-old conservative to CUNY’s Board of Trustees because he once called Lady Gaga a “slut.’” — The Post enters the performative period of its decline.