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The Frant: The "Woman" Problem - both sides of politics have it

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The left have long championed themselves as the progressive political movement strong on women’s issues. But as Jan Fran found, the John Setka incident shows that it’s all too easy for one side of politics to take a stand against the other...until they’re the side with something to lose.
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