>Can anyone tell me why there's a faction of feminists that utterly
>hate Susie Bright?
>
>In reponse to something I wrote that was featured on a few feminist
>blogs, there is this contingent of feminists who think she's the
>evil incarnate.
>
>Others are outraged that she writes for Playboy -- or used to.
>
>Others seem to think it's odd that she has socialist roots. When I
>read her now, it's really clear that her thinking is shaped by
>socialist/marxist theories, though she's obviously not Yoshie in
>terms of the breadth of her interets.
It shows up all the time - she described JT Leroy as "lumpen" the other week. Who else would use a word like that?
You know the answer to this, though, don't you? There's still a substantial contingent of MacDworkinites around, and Susie is the perfect emblem of everything they hate: a serious feminist who likes porn and bent sex. A few months ago I got an email from a MacDworkinite who denounced me for using a blurb from Susie. But how could I resist quoting her calling me "a wicked genius"?
Doug