Re: [Fwd: Re: Susan Sontag and the Rape of American Thinking.]

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Katha Pollitt wrote:

> The PL line was that feminism was a bourgeois diversion, like gay
> rights, which they opposed, and sexual liberation generally.

No need to use the past tense. While PL is a bit coy in its public
position, I saw some internal documents last year that showed that
they still hold this view. Not, of course, that the position of PL
matters very much in the larger scheme of things, but still, old
habits die hard.

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