[lbo-talk] Ellen Willis dies

[Jesse Lemisch]

Liza, your Nation piece is good. As you will see as you look through the
digest, I applied the same standards to males and females, alluding to Todd
Gitlin, who as you know I deeply disagree with. As you will see as you catch
up, there has been hideous rant here, over-the-top stuff. Can you imagine a
couple of hours decent interval before the rant? This stuff is hurtful to
whole communities, though clearly not to the LBO community.

Jesse

----- Original Message -----
From: "Liza Featherstone" <lfeather at panix.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 9:56 AM
Subject: [lbo-talk] Ellen Willis dies


> 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
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