Mark: wow, julia ioffe is really a stupid bitch me: lol which one is that? Mark: wrote for true/slant about russia me: oh, I vaguely remember her me: never read her me: how's Russia doing? me: I've been all busy me: with crazy U.S. shit Mark: it's fine, they're digging this oil price increase Mark: anyway she was arguing that sexism in russia is a lot worse now than it was under the soviets Mark: which is just laughably, palpably, stupid Mark: so basically par for the course for someone who writes for the MSM me: huh me: I don't know shit about Russian sexism Mark: it's been bad forever Mark: the whole culture is deeply mysoginist Mark: has been forever Mark: but she wrote an article that basically argued that, under the soviets, everything was great and then the 1990's happen and now womens' lives are hell Mark: which is a remarkably clichéd and foolish analysis, sort of shit that maybe a freshman in an intro course could write but you'd hope that someone who writes for the New Yorker could summon a little better effort me: lol New Yorker me: they think Malcolm Gladwell is a genius Mark: eh, good point i guess Mark: it still just amazes me how hackish most "experts" are