[lbo-talk] Oberlin College: Hell on Earth

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Tue Nov 11 10:38:14 PST 2003


On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> >I'm getting tired of
> >earnest feminists complaining of my "patriarchal"
> >vocabulary when I use the term "rule of thumb" in
> >my research methods course.
>
> It's not even true, that etymology, is it?
>
> Doug

Well, that's the point: they're making a fanciful, unsubstantiated etymological claim-- in a social science methodology class. (The sound of the prof smacking his head against the whiteboard--)

Miles



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