Change the title of the blog and the picture? Good grief, Charlie Brown! Two minor cosmetic changes to surrender to the crudest political correctness, neither of which seem likely to bring about the desired result of increasing female participation. But that’s how we do things nowadays. . .(Throws up hands)
Forgive me if this sounds partisan—but the “feminist” position as presented here is scarcely coherent argument; it seems just repeated bashing with the hammer of P.C. It’s really a reverse form of censorship and power-seeking under the victim mantle. That the “feminist” proponent has posted countless times with the same gush doesn’t make her worthy of serious response. She is a poor proponent of feminist ideas.
While I’m not a big fan of the pic, I certainly don’t find it offensive to women or even off-putting. In fact, I think I understand it as rfriel does, as advising some caution and even self-irony (due to the academic painting style, which now appears to modern eyes as kitschy and hilarious). I suspect Robin chose it, it seems like his sense of humor.
And I bet I’m the only woman classicist here who has studied feminist deconstruction. But then I went into technology. Which to think of it, maybe makes me the perfect female reader of OB.
And I remain an ardent fan of Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Helene Cixous, although I recognize that neuroscience and genetics have moved the discussion forward some too. For those of you who haven’t read those serious intellectuals, please believe me they have a rigor of thought and elegance in rhetoric lacking in the self-described “feminists” here. Read them, and eschew what we have been forced to endure in this discussion.
Let me laugh like the Medusa as I exit stage right. . .
@Hal
Change the title of the blog and the picture? Good grief, Charlie Brown! Two minor cosmetic changes to surrender to the crudest political correctness, neither of which seem likely to bring about the desired result of increasing female participation. But that’s how we do things nowadays. . .(Throws up hands)
Forgive me if this sounds partisan—but the “feminist” position as presented here is scarcely coherent argument; it seems just repeated bashing with the hammer of P.C. It’s really a reverse form of censorship and power-seeking under the victim mantle. That the “feminist” proponent has posted countless times with the same gush doesn’t make her worthy of serious response. She is a poor proponent of feminist ideas.
While I’m not a big fan of the pic, I certainly don’t find it offensive to women or even off-putting. In fact, I think I understand it as rfriel does, as advising some caution and even self-irony (due to the academic painting style, which now appears to modern eyes as kitschy and hilarious). I suspect Robin chose it, it seems like his sense of humor.
And I bet I’m the only woman classicist here who has studied feminist deconstruction. But then I went into technology. Which to think of it, maybe makes me the perfect female reader of OB.
And I remain an ardent fan of Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Helene Cixous, although I recognize that neuroscience and genetics have moved the discussion forward some too. For those of you who haven’t read those serious intellectuals, please believe me they have a rigor of thought and elegance in rhetoric lacking in the self-described “feminists” here. Read them, and eschew what we have been forced to endure in this discussion.
Let me laugh like the Medusa as I exit stage right. . .