Tiger Beatdown: “Self proclaimed feminists” and the new editor of Huffington Post France

I wrote about Anne Sinclair’s appointment as editor of The Huffington Post France and the interview she gave to Elle Magazine stating that she should not be judged for her choice to remain married to Dominique Strauss-Kahn due to the fact that the rape accusations were a private matter. From the piece:

Back then, when I asked “Why is nobody holding Dominique Strauss-Kahn accountable?” I was specifically talking about mainstream media. This management of mainstream world views, of ideology and rhetoric is not innocent, nor is it removed from the consequences it carries on our daily lives. So, I have to wonder about the ethical constructions that allow someone like Ms. Sinclair, one of such managers of ideology, to remain married to the guy who brought so much suffering to vast regions of the Global South. How does someone who claim to be concerned with matters of “the dignity of women here and elsewhere” reconcile her politics with the fact that she is married to a man who has been, for the most of his career, in the business of spreading indignity.