[lbo-talk] Oberlin College: Hell on Earth

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Tue Nov 11 10:42:14 PST 2003


On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, JW Mason wrote:


> Miles Jackson:
>
> >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.
>
> This has really happened to you? More than once?
>
> Josh

I hate to give ideological ammunition to the anti- feminists, but it happens pretty much every term. I usually use the term "general guideline" now instead.

Miles



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