Prejudices

[David Casseres]

>Your suggestion that a feminist panel would necessarily be as 
>partial and, here's that word again, "prejudiced" as the 
>Anti-Defamation League is a stereotype of feminists that I, an avowed
>feminist, would not have expected from you.

You're taking the parallel much more literally than I intended.

>Your challenge to find feminists that pay some attention to Camille
>Paglia suggests to me that your acquaintance with feminists is limited
>to the monolithic/party line variety that Ms. Paglia criticizes. Of
>course Paglia isn't right about everything, but the idea that there
>are certain tenets of any system that should not be questioned for the
>good of the whole is fascist fundamentalism.

It isn't that feminism, (which is hardly monolithic and whose "party 
line" is mighty damn hard to discern!) should not be questioned.  It 
should be and it is, all the time, in a whole lot of lively debate.  It's 
that Camille Paglia is an asshole, not because of her positions, such as 
they are, but because of her behavior.  Her criticisms are shallow 
exercises in exhibitionism, aimed at a strawman target for the purpose of 
attracting attention to the person and career of Camille Paglia.  If you 
can't see that you're really not paying attention, I'm afraid.


Cheers,
David