>It has nothing to do with their being men because I'm a woman and I admire
>Ellen Willis, but I'm not the least bit worried about derogatory comments
>around the time of her death. Down with pedastals; up with clay feet!
Just read this thread. Good lord, Jesse, Ellen would hate treacly remembrances. Not noted in the obits I've seen so far she was co-author of the Redstockings Manifesto, as well as naming the group with Shulamith Firestone: Bluestockings, the pejorative term for intellectual and socialist women, with red for social revolution.
Jenny Brown Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement http://www.redstockings.org