Sexual Harassment

Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Sun Oct 21 19:43:51 PDT 2001


On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> Steve, usually you catch analogies quicker than this. Almost certainly
> Pollit and the other women you name have been called "Dworkinites." It

I got your point Carrol, even acknowledged as much in my last post.

Steve


> has nothing whatever to do with either their or Dworkin's actual
> principles. One definition of "Dworkinite" would be, "Any woman or man
> who believes in the real existence of sexual harassment." You've seen
> the bizarre definitions of "Leninist" which have currency on this list.
> There are circles where Dennis P would be called a stalinist. And
> certainly Doug Henwood would be included by many among those "smug
> leftists" Yoshie mentions. That's one of the reasons opportunism is
> seldom opportune: No one gets any credit for their effort to "reach" the
> unreachable.
>
> Carrol
>



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