[Fwd: Re: Salem revisited, was RE: [Fwd: Re: Susan Sontag and the Rape of American Thinking.]]

[Katha Pollitt <kpollitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Jones wrote:
>
> No, the nastiness originated with Ms Pollitt's slanders and smears about a
> third party who was not even on the list at the time; perhaps you should
> check back a bit further. Or perhaps you just don't think that's a problem?
> Anyway, I'm still waiting for any kind of acknowledgement that baiting and
> flaming are out of line on the list.
>

Once again, it is not "slanders and smears" or"baiting and flaming" to
assert that Jared Israel, who is not a feminist and does not claim to be
one is, in fact, not a feminist.  Given mark's free use of sexist
language ('creepy androgynous" friends) I am even more bewildered by his
objections.  I would think he would consider my calling Jared "no
feminist"  a compliment!
  Nor do I think it is slanders etc to identify Jared as the public
person he was. I said nothing personal.  I said nothing untrue. I used
no intemperate, four letter, or violent language.
  I seem to remember that I also posed concrete and detailed criticisms
of Jared's post about  supposed gender equality in Serbia, the lack of
male hostility toward women there,  and the incapacity of Serbian men
for sexual violence. Neither Jared or Mark has responded to that --
instead Jared is silent and Mark is full of bluster.
  I think both silence and bluster testify to the strength of my
argument.

Katha