Re: PC thuggery :) (was Re: Country Related: Christmas)

Bryan Maloney wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > Tom Wier wrote:
> > > The feminist usage of "herstory" is a case in point.
> >
> > Actually, I think that that started out as a joke, but then, apparently,
> > it has been adopted by some feminists as tho it were serious.
> >
>
> In my conversations 10+ years ago with some avidly feminist professors of
> history, I was told that, as far as they knew, it started as a simple play
> on words, a way to playfully describe history that focussed on "her".
This is the version that I have come to understand also.

> Now, of course, it's become a matter of leftist religious dogma,
I'm not sure where you're coming from on this statement. Everyone I've
talked to still takes it as the play on words, albeit a useful one to
help the student allow for other perspectives.

> elevated
> to the same unquestionable level as the left wing's rejection of
> evolution theory and genetics.
Now I really am wondering where this came from. Are you referring to the
problems in the old Soviet Union, with their mistaken adoption of some
dead-ends in genetic theory? The Soviet communists hardly made up the
only "left"-leaning political group on the planet.

Laurie
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Laurie Gerholz
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