NP: The dish on Feminists!

[Craig Bleakley]

This roll call of shame for postmodern theorists seems awfully one-sided in
terms of gender.  And frankly, so far, I think it's been pretty sexist.
Now, however, after talking with highly reliable sources, I have come to
even the score by dishing the dirt on your favorite feminist critics!  So
get something to drink and maybe to munch, cuz if you think the rather
peculiar personal pursuits of Foucault, Althusser, etc., problematize Pomo
(you mean some folks can't live up to their ideals?), you ain't seen nothing
yet!  For example:

Betty Freidan: neat freak.  House *always* smelled like Pine-Sol.

Helene Cixous: very tempermental about people mispronouncing her name.  As a
child, bit the head off her brother's pet turtle.

Julie Kristeva: Has been caught more than once calling stores and asking if
they have Prince Albert in a can.  Owns more shoes than Imelda Marcos.   

Gayartri Spivak: horrible cook. I mean it.  Dine out.

Gloria Steinam: webbed toes.  

Linda Hutcheon: very bad about borrowing things from the neighbors and not
returning them.  

Jane Gallup: NASCAR enthusiast

And there you have it. Tune in next week to find out if Saul Bellow sleeps
in nothing but that Nobel medal dangling around his withered neck.  Bringing
you the dish from the glamourous Intellectual Gossip Capitol of the
World--Normal, Illinois--this is Craig Bleakley signing off, and really
jealous of all of you out there who have better things to do.