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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...
...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 high- powered feminist intellectualdom, on the one hand, and your average office wit or female cafeteria orator, on the other...
While the gals in data entry are discussing fascinating new possibilities for cutlery commercials, the feminist pundits are tripping over one another to show that none of them is, goddess forbid, a "man hater." And while the pundits are making obvious but prissy-sounding statements like "The fact that one has been a victim doesn't give one carte blanche to victimize others," the woman in the street is making V signs by raising two fingers and bringing them together with a snipping motion...
Anyone who doubts that words have consequences ought to talk to the feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon. Certainly her words have had consequences. When Canada's Supreme Court decided to uphold the nation's toughened obscenity laws two years ago, they were moved in large part by MacKinnon's argument that pornography prompts men to a whole panoply of crimes against women, from gender discrimination to outright rape...
...naive and slightly ingenuous children's author. But Winger seems to do more of the work. And as Joy Gresham she has her work cut out for her. Her character is almost as stereotypical as Lewis' initial analysis makes her sound. She's brash, loud-mouthed, has feminist and other leftist leanings and simply will never be anything but a Yankee. Lewis and his muddled, ex-military brother (an endearing Edward Hardwicke) think that she's darling; most of his colleagues don't. But Winger's performance is humane and intelligent. She manages to pull a mature and thoughtful individual...