### BordoLines

Susan Bordo

Feminist philosopher and media maven specializing in U.S. politics and culture. Author of influential books on the female body, masculinity, Anne Boleyn, Hillary Clinton, Post-Trump politics, and TV.

[BordoLines](https://susanbordo.substack.com/)

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#### Recent Posts

- **People often ask me why I don’t block and delete more.**  
  There are a few reasons, but one big one is how much I learn or have confirmed.  
  Here’s what was confirmed from my open posts on yesterday’s elections:  
  Most people have no idea what politicians’ actual positions are.  
  All they needed were the words “pro-Israel” to make up their minds for them. The words are so vague as to be meaningless except as a political weapon that conjures up images of dead babies and “support for genocide.”

- **For Mamdani, It’s not enough to be critical of Netanyahu or the conduct of the war.**  
  You have to declare Israel genocidal and an apartheid state. So someone like Dan Goldman, who is hardly a cheerleader for the current Israeli administration, has to be primaried by the Mamdani sycophant Brad Lander, who says all the right words—loudly and wherever he can.  
  If Lander wins today over the accomplished and experienced Goldman it will be a travesty—and a giveaway that the agenda Mamdani is promoting is...

- **Christmas morning ten years ago my husband gave me dishtowels for Christmas,**  
  and couldn’t figure out why I looked so crestfallen and was in a foul snit for the rest of the day.  
  In truth, it was more than a snit. I was heart-broken. Dishtowels? Was he being passive-aggressive? Or did he just not care about making me happy?