Punching Paglia

[Henry M]

Bingo! "I can not speak for all feminists..." "Doesn't listen to her 
opponents." Kinda hard to "listen" to people who shout you down/punch 
you out. 

Am I missing something here? I don't own any books by Paglia, 
so I'd like to know if  she usually uses phrases like "all feminists?" 
Where can I get the feminist almanac that will give me the numbers 
so that I can know what is "representative of most of its proponents?"
Or does one need to major or minor in Women's Studies?

On 28 Nov 96 at 22:38, Chris Stolz wrote:

> Date:          Thu, 28 Nov 1996 22:38:22 GMT
> To:            Diana York Blaine <dyb0001 at jove.acs.unt.edu>
> From:          Chris Stolz <chstolz at canuck.com>
> Subject:       Re: Punching Paglia
> Cc:            pynchon-l at waste.org

> At 10:34 PM 11/27/96 -0600, you wrote:
> >I certainly cannot speak for all feminists, but I know much of the
> >frustration about Camille Paglia comes from the assumption that she
> >is a feminist because she is a woman.  This is untrue.  Many women
> >spout the male party line and get mondo approval for it.  She is
> >one of them.  That is her right.  But don't confuse it in any way
> >with "the radical notion that women are people."  Happy Gluttony,
> >All!  Dian_A_
> 
>         I would add to this two other things-- 
> 
> 1)  Paglia turns feminism into a straw man, i.e. imputes to it
> claims which it either doesn't make or which aren't representative
> of most of its exponents, and then attacks the straw man (woman?)
> 
> 2)  she is, like her diss. adviser Bloom, fundamentally a monloguist
> who speaks in sound bites and one-liners and doesn't listen to her
> opponents, plus she drinks too much coffee.
> 
> chris
> 
> 
> chris stolz
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