[lbo-talk] Something, was dull etcetera

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Aug 5 08:26:39 PDT 2003


If you really want to laugh, read the crime fiction of Janet Evanovich. Wonderful! Even rereadable.

And may I point out that the major putdown of feminists for two centuries has been the accusation that they lack humor. It would be interesting to do a careful historical analysis of this cliche that rebels are always dull. It's hard to crack jokes while your lover is cracking your bones.

A stroll through any book store or a perusal of the magazine shelves in the nearest drug store will reveal that there is a plenitude of dullness in the world, but what would one think if on the basis of two or three such magazines someone started complaining -- excuse me, offering a critique -- of how dull, dull, dull, humanity was.

"The Left," however one defines it, is simply too multi-faceted, too richly human, too complex, for it to be even minimally useful to make sweeping generalizations about it under the pretence of offering criticism.

Carrol



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