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- From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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- Subject: Re: Camillemania
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.040900.25033@netsys.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 04:09:00 GMT
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- In article <WORDS-L%92122116481528@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)) writes:
- >> Paglia is considered to be a strident anti-feminist.
- >
- >"Considered?" By whom? The multicultural mafia that runs many
- >Women's Studies programs? (Thought police? Us? We're for diversity
- >tolerance and understanding, and anyone who disagrees is an oppressor
- >and probably a reactionary to boot!)
-
- By whom? Let's start with Paglia herself. She announces often and loudly
- that she is against the feminist agenda and against as many feminists
- as she feels able to name. She at times claims she is a feminist, but not
- one who subscribes to any conventional "feminist" goals, principles, or
- ideals. Her works are quite explicit. Can you find anything in her
- writings or in her public appearances to the contrary?
-
- >What business do two males have debating "who is a feminist" anyway?
-
- What business does an economist have in responding to an author that he
- probably hasn't read? Or in whites discussing racism? Or.....heh!
- Sounds like you're advocating radical essentialism, Steve...
-