"The feminists have yet to produce a single piece of writing, devoted to their cause, which any rational creature could attach importance to....
....Their writings only serve to show that the authors, after having enjoyed for most of a century advantages which no women ever enjoyed before, and which few or no men have ever enjoyed in any greater degree advantages of freedom, education, wealth, and health - still have nothing more to draw upon than a boundless conviction of their own brilliant merits, merits which the world, by some equally boundless wickedness, has failed to appreciate. Their only theme is still the old everlasting one: we was robbed! One is apt to think, "Jesus, why don't they do something that would command intellectual respect, instead of forever whining about how they are prevented from doing it?" But this is a foolish thought, as my candid colleague who furnished example (3) implies: to look to feminism to bear intellectual fruit is looking for figs from thistles. -- David Stove: A Farewell to ArtsPosted by Vanderleun at June 10, 2011 11:04 AM
The quote is, apparently, from 1986, but it holds more true then ever over a broader range of areas well beyond academia.
Posted by: Don Rodrigo at June 10, 2011 12:27 PMI recognize that crap from my time in undergrad from teh mid to late-1980's. What interests me is how long it has gone on, and I wonder if it will fall victim to Intapundit's higher ed bubble.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at June 10, 2011 12:43 PMI once read something by Frank Schaeffer (not Francis, but his son) which went something like this:
Learning about art and literature via Marxist, feminist postmodernism, is like learning about sex via rape.
Nah, the Slut-walk has some merit; that brings things to the elemental level.
Now I know that when I want a slut I'll look for a Feminazi. Glad they 'splained it.
Posted by: Peccable at June 10, 2011 2:28 PMAh, let me slide into my club chair here at the He-Man Woman Haters Club:
She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.
And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim
Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.
She is wedded to convictions—in default of grosser ties;
Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies!—
He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child. ~Kipling
Can't remember where I read the comment recently, but I have to agree with it: "Feminism and femininity go together like oil and water." That's why the feminist women hate the feminine Sarah Palin.
Posted by: Drdave at June 10, 2011 9:18 PMAs a recently divorced friend said, "If it weren't for sex there would be a bounty on em."
Posted by: Alfonzo at June 12, 2011 6:26 PMShe can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.
Wow. All the way from "Feminists haven't produced anything worthy of intellectual respect" to "Women have nothing more to offer the world than as mothers and wives/mistresses"?
Allow me to disagree with Kipling and posit that there may be one or two rational women in the world - nay, even a few who do, in fact, understand justice.
Posted by: Dr. Freud, Your Slip is Showing at June 13, 2011 8:08 AMWell, it is more like the Kipling came first and the Stowe second in 1986.
But I shall go with Kipling here when he said, long long ago,
"Gee, you're so cute when you're mad!"
[Ducking]
Posted by: Vanderleun at June 13, 2011 8:13 AM"It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood." -- Karl Popper N.B.: Comments are moderated to combat spam and may not appear immediately. Comments that exceed the obscenity or stupidity limits will be either edited or expunged.
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