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...where are the “intellectual?? and “politically charged” women ostensibly lurking on this campus, and what do they do with their time? They must have something to do with groups like Students For Choice (SFC), Coalition Against Sexual Violence, and Students for Humane and Responsible Economics, along with some of the others (like PBHA) mentioned in Larson’s column. Larson describes such groups as “female-friendly” (as opposed to gender-neutral?) because they are largely led by women and address issues of direct concern...
...other words, what worked for a middle-aged academic white male in the 1950s, whose apron-clad wife ran his household, raised 2.5 children and had a martini waiting when he arrived home, does not necessarily work for the modern-day intellectual??male or female...
...accounts, the term “public intellectual?? dates back to 1987, when Russell Jacoby coined it in The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe to describe the type of scholar whose disappearance his book lamented. He argued that colleges and universities had coopted all of society’s great minds and shut them up in the proverbial ivory tower, where their ideas and theories were of no use to the general public...
...Look” was the designer of choice and we would wear “knock-offs” of his fashions. Many Radcliffe women scorned any female who wore make-up and had an interest in her appearance. “Frivolous and non-intellectual?? was the verdict. Because so many Harvard men preferred Wellesley women to Radcliffe women, all Wellesley women were accused of being frivolous and non-intellectual...
...Don’t forget to include a French epigram by Jean Cocteau and definitely omit the translation so as to alienate all your “non-intellectual?? readers...