[lbo-talk] ...where angels fear to tread (was Wolf v Bloom)

Kerry Keane kkeane at popmail.colum.edu
Wed Feb 25 08:22:12 PST 2004


heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:


> But of course the only reason that anyone is pouring scorn on credentials
> is because of the arguments being put. What offends everyone about Camille
> Paglia and Katie Roiphe is that they are both women who object to the
> caricature of predatory men and delicate women.

Ha! This is itself a caricature of the objections that people have to Roiphe and Paglia.

'Predatory men and delicate women' is a Victorian construction, not a feminist one. It's interesting how you don't attribute this 'caricature' to any particular person, movement or writer.



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