November 30, 2002
Feminist sticks and stones
Here's a particularly mean-spirited piece on conservative women activists from the current Nation. Don't read it for substance--this piece wilfully misconstrues and misrepresents both the issues and the people who espouse them (of Christina Hoff Sommers, who presides over the essay in the guise of feminism's evil step-mother, the author reflects that it is hard to tell whether she is "the darling of the far right or whether she is doing penance for some great sin committed against her conservative brethren"). Do read it, though, regardless of your politics, to remind yourself of the look and feel (the phrase is that of Virginia Postrel, another of feminism's succubi) of bad intellectual faith.
posted on November 30, 2002 2:12 PM
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