Mary Daly update

CounterPunch sitka at teleport.com
Wed May 26 18:12:57 PDT 1999


kelly writes:


>given the way
>she's been treated for two decades, i'd be awfully careful about who i let
>in my class in an institution that is incredibly oppressive to women.

if daly's so damn worried about how's she's been (being) treated, go teach somewhere else. perhaps, the university of kabul? it would make bc look downright liberated by comparison.


> she
>denies access to upper level courses that are *electives* so it's not as if
>she's actually harming anyone at all.
> if it were a required course for
>majors then there might be a point.

not persuasive. if she's got something important to teach and she's denying it to a certain segment of the student body, there's harm. if she doesn't have anything important to say, then the denial's just so much of her own self-inflated hype. i don't know what her lectures are like but her writing is often as turgid as raymond williams's and as obscure as lacan's--tho' much, much less interesting when you penetrate the fog.

jsc

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