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

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".
Now, of course, it's become a matter of leftist religious dogma, elevated
to the same unquestionable level as the left wing's rejection of
evolution theory and genetics.