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UM-Dearborn Student: Romney-Supporting Women Are 'Stupid'

An opinion piece in The Michigan Journal has sparked debate over women who back the GOP.

While the Michigan Journal—the University of Michigan-Dearborn's campus newspaper—made clear their support for the reelection of President Barack Obama, one staffer had a slightly different way of stating it.

The op-ed by Opinion Editor Kristen Golembiewski, published Tuesday by the Michigan Journal, attacks women's support of Mitt Romney as "against the rules of feminism."

"I just don’t understand why any woman, regardless of race or social status, would vote for a candidate that has made misogynistic remarks on more than one occasion, did not support the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, is anti-choice, and made comments that alluded to the idea that women have to rush home after work to be with the kids and cook dinner," Golembiewski wrote. "... that just tells me that these women, well, I’m sorry to say it, but they’re stupid."

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The column garnered some support from fellow students, but also criticism.

The Opinion Editor of Hillsdale College responded with a letter to the editor calling Golembiewski's piece "offensive and poorly written."

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A writer for the blog the College Insurrection called it "an excellent example of the left-wing idiocy that passes for thinking."

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