Fruit fly, very funny.

No reach arounds for Sensitive New Age Guy.

DIAF!

I just love a gay catfight, watching two latent homosexuals rough each other up before someone earns top and maybe grants his bottom a reach-around...but really makes him work for it. jeffy and jimmy are so much in love, and it's so sweet of them to carry on for our benefit. I doubt this relationship will last, but while it burns brightly with the flame of passion it's hilarious to watch!

the real world

Funny how it's never smart people who find the world of ideas un-real.

Yes, you're very smart, since you've read a lot of books by various sexist men and women.

That qualifies you to "teach" Women's Studies.

Very smart, just go back to your intellectual work, and leave the rest of us in the real world alone.

How can you run an ideological training seminar with ideologically disparate texts?

I asked...

Can you read?

...and you answered with more babble.

I'll take that as a 'no.'

The good news for you is now that you've googled a small fraction of the books I've read, you're on your way to knowing something regarding the topic you persistently post about.

Dear Caitlin,

There's nothing worse for a child than an unhappy parent. This is why a "you must do this" approach doesn't work. Some women thrive when they stay home (and can afford to.) Some women who stay home are psycho and unhappy and they produce unhappy kids and husbands who want to kill themselves. To complain about daycare and working moms and dads who are excited to see their kids...give me a break. There was a time when being a stay-at-home mom meant kicking your kids out until after dark while you had tea with your neighbor, so spare me the drama and high-horse.

Flanagan is a hypocrite and so are the stay-at-home parent cults. Once again, a parent fulfilling <<in some manner>> their purpose on earth produces healthy, normal children. Quality time doesn't have to mean 24/7. I know plenty of stay at homers who don't know quality time if it hit them in the head. Same goes for people who work all the time and can't recognize their kids if they were on a milk carton. The lesson for Flanagan is this: it's the person that matters, not the circumstance.

Okay, SNAG. George Gilder, founder of the Discovery Institute and idiot proponent of Intelligent Design. Brilliant choice SNAG - he's a real intellectual. And Mansfield, well, he tries to be manly, but his wife won't let him.

Oh those two are great foils to the manhaters on the other side of the spectrum. Great choice.

You must think you're a real scholar, Sensitive New Age Guy. I'm sure your students will learn a lot in your class/ideological training seminar.

Sad.

Maybe you could organize a Klan study group on African-American literature.

The reason why that wouldn't work? Because like you, the Klan isn't interested in learning anything. Their entrenched prejudices are all they need to sustain them, rather like your castration paranoia is sustaining you right now.

However, if you're interested in extending or re-arranging your metaphor, you might be interested in knowing that African-American studies classes do frequently teach founding documents from racist groups and novels like Dixon's The Clansman.

Since you've never read anything more than a Google-hit long, I'm sure this astonishes you.

Some lineup there, Sensitive New Age Guy

As well as George Gilder and Harvey Mansfield. Can you (Parson Jim / WTFWJD) read?

Let's see.... John Stoltenberg, the self-hating gay male lover of Andrea Dworkin...Michael Kimmel, a feminist leader in the war against boys who is trying to make sure that young men get shortchanged throughout their educational lives....and Thomas "Lacquer" (I think you mean Thomas Laqueur), a man who built his career denying that any parenting of value comes from fathers when he isn't writing treatises on masturbation.

Nice lineup.

Maybe you could organize a Klan study group on African-American literature.

It would most likely be less bigoted than the "class" you are scheduled to teach.

Broadsheet needs them. This is sick.

I'm not sure that I follow your logic of the catfight.

-- Mordecai Jefferson Carver

Hey, Jeffy, here's a nice steaming mug of STFU for you to sip on until you get a fucking clue. Collect a few of these and you'll be on your way to getting a life.

I doubt that most WS programs would entertain a lecture by Schlafly or Coulter or, since you seem to be a dude, Harvey Mansfield or Larry Summers - not without disruption and protest - though I could be wrong.

Schlafly frequently gets read in Women's Studies classes, but Coulter doesn't. Probably because she's too new and not intellectually rigorous. Larry Summers isn't a writer and admits that he's no expert on gender, so he also doesn't find his way there. As for Harvey Mansfield, I'm putting him on the syllabus for a class about masculinity (in the gender studies department) that I'm teaching in the fall, alongside George Gilder and other anti-feminists. Their books will be read alongside essays and books by people that they have critiqued and that have critiqued them from various ideological viewpoints (e.g. Michael Kimmel, John Stoltenberg, Thomas Lacquer).

I'm not sure that I follow your logic of the catfight. Why is calling Flanagan a plagiarist bitchy?

Rockwell also shows herself to be the kind of small person who celebrates a person's firing. It's not enough that Rockwell self-censor the offending author - no, the author must lose her job because Rockwell has determined Flanagan's the wrong kind of woman with the wrong kind of ideas. Then, mark these words, we'll see Triaster complain about the dearth of women bylines on the New Yorker (oh, wait, that was a few weeks back). Rockwell's piece reminds me, BTW, of the kind of gloating heard on right wing blogs when Salon was almost defunct and had to crawl on its belly to find money. But the left would never do that!