Because even a stopped clock is right twice a day, Andrea Peyser's whine about left opposition to Quinn is not without an occasional salient point, but to assert as Peyser does that "Quinn…once enjoyed the uniform support of the city’s vast left-wing cabal," is to indulge in Bizarro-world delusional revisionism. The "left cabal," to the extent it exists, opposed Quinn's election as Speaker, and has never since supported her with much, if any, enthusiasm.
Further, while Peyser is correct that Quinn is sometimes the victim of misogynistic and homophobic stereotyping, it is not "stereotyping" to quote Quinn threatening to cut off the genitalia of others–it is "stenography."
The truth is, what scares people, and not just people on the left, about Quinn isn't that "she acts like a man." It is that she acts like a particular man:
Rudy Giuliani.
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