Word: frug
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With few exceptions, the parody of an article by the late Mary Joe Frug has been universally condemned--from faculty to students to the president of the Harvard Law Review, Emily R. Schulman...
...annual Revue spoof edition, intended only for internal distribution, was leaked this year to a group of students at the Law School. They immediately and forcefully condemned the piece, "He-Manifesto of Post-Mortem Legal Feminism (From The Desk of Mary Doe)." The piece mocked Frug's article, "A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto...
...title was not sufficiently morbid, the Revue was distributed on the first anniversary of Frug's murder in Cambridge...
...nature of the parody is no longer controversial, but its implications go beyond Mary Joe Frug. Student activists, as well as a contingent of liberal professors, have seized upon the incident to condemn the Law School, its faculty appointments committee and its overall treatment of women and minorities...
Sings posted in the Review's Gannett House offices instruct staffers to refuse comment, saying that only Schulman should talk to the press. Schulman, who has herself condemned the Frug parody while defending the Review, did not return repeated phone calls over the last month...