[lbo-talk] Ellen Willis dies

[Liza Featherstone]

I read this stuff in digest now, so sorry if I'm behind. Jesse, I  
usually really like your writing and your thinking, but I have no  
idea what you're on about here. It's not sexist or anti-feminist to  
criticize a woman's political ideas when she has just died -- it's  
everything feminists have fought for. That is, to be taken seriously  
just like men, and that's not always  nice or pretty. I am quite sure  
Ellen WIllis would agree.

However, I didn't mention her Zionism in my quick obit -- though I've  
mentioned it in passing when writing about her in the past -- because  
her work on global politics, to me, was just not Ellen Willis's major  
contribution. Her writing was best when she was thinking  
unconventionally.

Liza