Word: bobbitt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read the volumes of outraged male commentary, you'd think Lorena Bobbitt had got her training in a feminist guerrilla camp and her carving skills from the SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto. "Go out into the world," her trainers must have told her, "find some sexist lowlife, preferably an ex- Marine named John Wayne, and, you know...
...Lorena Bobbitt is in many ways just your typical small-town multicultural manicurist, a woman whose ideas of political science are summed up in a statement she made about Venezuela, where she grew up: "I have a patriotism . . . We do have McDonald's. We do have Pizza Hut." Nor are the women who harassed Dr. James Sehn's wife in a McLean, Virginia, beauty parlor because he had helped reattach the offending organ known to be commandos from the National Organization for Women. In fact, the really interesting thing about the Bobbitt affair is the huge divergence it reveals between...
...feminist intellectuals seem slightly out of touch, it's because they're preoccupied these days with their own factional matters, such as the great standoff over the subject of victimhood. On the pro-victimhood side are the legions of domestic-abuse specialists who see Lorena Bobbitt as one more martyr in women's long, weepy history of rape and abuse. On the anti side are feminist authors like Naomi Wolf and Wendy Kaminer, who claim that women have been turning away from feminism because they're sick and tired of hearing about victims and "victimology": foot binding, battering, genital mutilation...
Some people, however, still hope Bobbitt willshow up in Radcliffe Yard. Shar N. Van Boskirk'97, a Lyman Common Room staff member, said shereceived three serious inquiries from LorenaBobbitt fans. They wanted to know whether Bobbittwas actually going to appear...
...caller insisted that "a very reliablesource" had said that Bobbitt was going to speak,according to Boskirk. "I thought it was prettyfunny," she said...