women?feminism?

[Katha Pollitt]

I've been following the discussion flowing from alex's column with some
bemusement.  How quickly the talk moved away from issues of women,
feminism, sexism, Satanic panic -- the things alex and I were both
supposedly writing about -- and moved into the usual androcentric
grooves: militias, Doug versus Alex, etc. I would think it would be at
least a little bit interesting that Wendy Kaminer, cited by alex as a
"good" feminist" on the ritual abuse issue, criticized him severely in
the same letters column as Doug!

  
Katha

ps. Max, The New York Press is a foulmouthed and stupid rightwing 
giveaway paper here in New York, for which Alex, for reasons best known
to himself, writes a column. It's read by media junkies like Doug and
the kind of guy who you suspect is building bombs in the garage -- or,
more likely, wishes he could but his mom won't let him. It's  obsessed
with attacking The Nation--sometimes I think they're the only people who
read it! -- and Alex is glad to oblige, retailing  office gossip and
insulting  his  colleagues in particularly grotesque and underhanded
ways.  I'm a favorite punching bag  at NYP -- "bubbly faghag" is my
favorite insult so far.