Decoding anti-feminist writer Caitlin Flanagan (Colbert's guest)

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http://www.msmagazine.com/winter2004/backtothekitchen.asp

Four years ago, Caitlin Flanagan got a lucky break.

Benjamin Schwarz, an editor at The Atlantic, asked the stay-at-home mother of two to try her hand at writing for the magazine’s reviews section. His wife was in a writing group with Flanagan — the two had become close friends — and, having heard her hold forth on motherhood, homemaking and the like at various dinner parties, Schwarz knew that he wanted to publish her.

Flanagan quickly made her name in The Atlantic as a contrarian critic of modern domestic life. In a handful of essays, she sniped at various facets of middle-class adult culture (the wedding industry and sexless marriages) and lauded others (Martha Stewart and Dr. Laura).

Her style evolved to become “biting and witty,” or “bold,” according to fellow journalists — though, from another point of view, one could describe it as shrill, smug and condescending...