More Noted Things

by Cliopatria

Belle Waring takes Eugene Volokh out behind the barn and gives him a lickin'. It wouldn't have occurred to me to tell Professor Volokh that he'd just flunked Moron 101, but then I haven't had the same experience as Belle's had.

Carlin Romano,"What Would Kierkegaard Do?" CHE, 5 May, looks at the Danish cartoon controversy through the eyes of Søren Kierkegaard.

Francis Fukuyama,"After ‘The End of History'," Open Democracy, 5 May, is the new afterword to his book in which FF assesses his own argument.

Finally, I've recommended the damn interesting posts at Damn Interesting.com already. If you're still skeptical, try Jason Bellows,"Any Officer Who Goes into Action Without His Sword is Improperly Dressed" or Greg Bjerg,"Hadji Ali and the Regurgitators." I make no claim that they have metahistorical significance, but they're – well – damn interesting.

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James Lindgren - 5/9/2006

Belle Waring's arguments are not faring too well in the comments to her posts:

Link: http://crookedtimber.org/2006/05/07/you-know-how-when-people-explain-jokes-theyre-not-funny-ok-but-this-one-clueless-libertarian-got-on-the-subway-and/#comments

My contribution to that thread (#40) points out that Catharine MacKinnon makes much the same argument that caused Waring to say that Volokh had flunked Feminism 101.

MacKinnon argued that women’s physical responses are socially conditioned and that verbal responses saying that they are not aroused may be more accurate than the measurable signs of physical arousal that they show.

So, by discussing unwanted physical responses consistent with sexual arousal, was MacKinnon saying that a woman victim “secretly wants it or secretly enjoys it”?

I don’t think so.

Neither was my co-blogger Eugene.

Belle implied that Eugene failed or would fail Feminism 101.

Would Waring say that, by MacKinnon’s asserting the existence of unwanted, unconsented measurable signs of physical arousal, Catharine MacKinnon would fail Feminism 101 too?