good god. monday, i forgot to bring a book to work. i dropped into the bookstore and picked up Bitch magazine to read at lunch. I read about a woman who twittered her abortion and the attacks she received.
why i am surprised that jezebel readers accused her of being a baiter for the rightwing, i […]
and melissa harris-lacewell = idiot tool.
good lard save me from the essentializing crappola! brownfemipower is writing about working class men and i just want to scream. i really dislike the implicit assumption that, somehow, it is only working class men and women who are owned by corporations, that what it means to be working class is to do manual labor […]
god. i read amber’s blog, only to learn about some ridiculous blow out in sexworker bloglandia. i really don’t feel like reading everything so as to have an informed position, let alone so I can distill it all for you, but you can learn more by blogging on “alexa di carlo,” fauxho, etc. etc.
and i’m […]
At lbo, Dennis Claxton dropped a link to something Michael Berube wrote at his blog. Basically, Berube read the same Michaels I did, not the one fantasized by Henwood. He wrote about it in his blog post, criticized him in similar ways to the ways I had. Only Berube is much funnier than moi.
When Doug […]
Doug Henwood tried to mock Carrol Cox for chiding people about using logical fallacy in their discussion of Gore Vidal. Doug wrote:
Life isn’t about people. It’s about Historical Forces.
Yeah, it was a dumb comment because it really has zippo to do with Carrol’s theory of society. It has a lot more to do […]
I’ve been using up crap in the cupboards and fridge. I had this tube of crescent rolls and some turkey sausage, so i just made some dicks ‘n’ dough. I was chuckling to myself, wrapping the meat in the dough, watching as the dough starting expanding ever so slightly as it hit the warm air. […]
Honestly, Walter Benn MIchaels really is a piece of work. I’ve been packing my stuff to move, and so I have plenty of time to think about this one particular chapter. It starts out, helpfully (!), to show that it’s just not race that’s a problem, but also other things like gender. (Of course, don’t […]
So, one of the other things I didn’t address in Walter Been Michaels’ book, The Trouble with Diversity, was the chapter, Just and Unjust Rewards. It seems to begin as an attempt disarm critics who might argue that he is singling out race when it comes to diversity. To really be fair, and not […]
OK., so LOBsters know about my ranting about Walter Benn Michaels. What I bitched about early on was his use of leftist and radical language — class, exploitation, and referring to “the left” — to advance what is merely a reformist Welfare liberal position in opposition to Neo-Liberalism.
Henwood, of course, challenged me, arguing that […]
oh good god. i have been on a rant, criticizing Walter Benn MIchaels work in The Trouble With Diversity over at LBO. So, I’m about wrapped up with it all, have made my case, and I happen across a video of him. So, bored at work, I’m listening away only to learn that Michaels pulls […]
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