>it was written......by some wankers:
>
>"This is the scandal of this mafia left; it is so intellectually insecure
>that does not know what to think of what it reads. Until her last post,
>Carrol Cox was convinced that TRANSFORMATION was quite a "good" thing...
>now she is not so sure anymore. Soon, undoubtedly Henwood will change his
>view on LUDIC FEMINISM, Cox will perform (as all performative leftists do)
>an interpretive acrobatics and change her mind about the book. This is
>simply what happens when the panic left becomes the last bastion of
>anti-intellectualism. Thus its relentless attack on the academy -- which is
>in a sense another mark of its self-loathing and insecurity in the presence
>of ideas."
They were right about my changing my view on Ludic Feminism, gotta hand 'em that. I liked it when I first read it, but the more I read the writers that Ebert attacks, the more it seemed like a fairly crude polemic - a more respectable version of the pure Orange mania.
Doug