--- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_re...@...> wrote: > > http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i40/40sommers.htm > <http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i40/40sommers.htm> > > excerpt > > Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship > > By CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS > > "Harder to kill than a vampire." That is what the > sociologist Joel Best calls a bad statistic. But, > as I have discovered over the years, among false > statistics the hardest of all to slay are those > promoted by feminist professors.
Unfortunately, it appears that Sommers (a "resident scholar" at the right-wing American Enterprise Institute) may be at least as sloppy with her facts as the scholars she criticizes, according to this review of her 1994 book "Who Stole Feminism?" from Fairness and Accuracy in Media, which deals with many of the same points Sommers raises in the article Bob cites: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1246 At the end the reviewer quotes Sommers from a '94 interview in Esquire: "There are a lot of homely women in women's studies. Preaching these anti-male, anti-sex sermons is a way for them to compensate for various heartaches-- they're just mad at the beautiful girls." Oy.
