A Whiff from the Highfalutin Women
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
The Alternative November, 1971 3 Editorial A Whiff from the Highfalutin Women For many years now charlatans have known that the quickest and most certain way to snare the American dope is...
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...Whether served with tea and cakes by the Women's Christian Temperance Union or served up piping hot by one of the gaggle of radical reform organizations so furiously elevating and humanizing the Supermarket Republic today, sooner or later the dope falls head over hoof for it...
...No one has written a coherent analysis of the subject, because it coheres around not one valid qustion of essential significance...
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...today's fakes put a cloud over Americans -- still many Americans would have it no other way...
...If you doubt my claims ask your local librarian to pull from under her counter the last few issues of The New York Review of Books...
...Sister McPherson's followers gathered together to give themselves over to the Divinity, to forget their sore feet and to escape their various calamities...
...Yet there is a stunning dissimilitude between the two and it is a dissimilitude that manifests the peculiar pathologies of contemporary America...
...Even historians are less and less able to justify their disciplines...
...Of course, we can marshal less profound reasons why Women's Liberation will replace Vietnam and negritude as the campuses' burning monomania, and all of them inform us as much about the silliness of Women's Liberation as it informs us about the hopelessness of most of the academic reserves...
...So the charlatans of Women's Liberation had to whoop it up for women's rights and sexual fantasy, and it is now only a matter of time before they snare the American dope - - the selfproclaimed Concerned Citizen...
...Sister Millett fishes for yahoos with college degrees while Sister McPherson trolled for carp...
...Kate MiUett and all her sweet charlatans are simploy joy-riding on the legitimate claims of the civil rights movement...
...Its ideas are idiotic and contradictory...
...Even in their slogan, "Sisterhood is Powerful," they are playing on the sincere aspirations of the Negro ((Black is Beautiful...
...The frauds of yesterday put Americans on a cloud...
...Women's Liberation is a blunderbuss aimed by misanthropes and idiots at the productive elements of society...
...The result is that everytime something like Bella Abzug flaps her jaw before a college audience the intellectuals smell the sweat of human chattel, hear whips crack over the backs of Georgia field hands and see a forlorn negress shivering before the mob at a Charleston slave market - - all this they experience while Bella speaks of Women's misery in America...
...Women's Liberation is philosophically illiterate...
...Political Science has become the study of sophisticated daydreams, and hardly a government professor in the land really believes in American democratic process...
...For one thing Women's I,iberation was bound to prove irresistible to the media, and though no one else takes televised history seriously America's educated elite certainly does...
...It is this one aphorism, of course, that explains the extraordinary interest Americans are focusing on Women's Liberation...
...Sister McPherson was loved and respected during her stay on this glob of dirt, and it seems that this is to be the destiny of Sister Millett...
...Never in recorded history has the dope been able to abstain from nonsense...
...One's bait is human rights...
...Naturally, the very abundance of silly ideas it clumsily embraces commends it to the modern university -- an institution utterly entranced by the second-rate because it is over-populated by the third- and fourthrate...
...Millett is bamboozling Americans in the same way Aimee Semple McPherson hood-winked them during America's last Renaissance...
...As a phenomenon Women's Liberation represents the quintessence of affluence in that nation possessed of the world's highest standard of luxury...
...Fearing that the academics might recall that certain of her programmatic demands conflicted with labor reforms from the progressive era, she furiously shoveled out fragrant chunks of human rights and simply overwhelmed them...
...Only the rarest department of literature ever graduates serious students of Chaucer or of Shakespeare...
...In fact, I imagine that even some of the more intelligent graduate students are warmed by the women's glorious ideals, for Women's Liberation is just 3he kind of burning issue that is edging its way into trendy university curriculum, making the universities relevant and leaving students and professors incompetent to contrast Charles Reich with, for inslance, a sophisticated fungus...
...a glance will convince you that this year Women's Liberation will sweep the campus as devastatingly as Venezenlan equine encephalo-myelitis swept the panhandle...
...Such credentials cannot but arouse the interst of all those mediocre graduate students who tremble at their desks, dutifully applying themselves to the mystifications of the various social sciences...
...How long can the common professor of literature be expected to ignore such a wangdoodle of a bandwagon ? I expect the prestige universities will soon give themselves over to a building-spree that will raise vast institutes devoted to pondering the complexities of feminology -- imagine, if you will, the Simone de Beauvoir Institute for Strategic Study" of the Glands...
...The Alternative November, 1971 3 Editorial A Whiff from the Highfalutin Women For many years now charlatans have known that the quickest and most certain way to snare the American dope is to deck out every preposterous scheme, every enterprising swindle or every flagrant dive into the limelight as a "matter of human rights...
...the other's was magic...
...If the promoters of Women's Liberation had actually addressed themselves to women'S changing role in a society whose family life, for various reasons, has changed drastically simultaneous with a vast economic and vocational transformation, they would be on to a serious social problem, but alas their audience would respond with snores and groans...
...Once they have bagged him they will have taken complete command of America's primary weapons for combatting reality, to wit, legislation and financial appropriation...
...Sister Millett's assemble to put on the crown of the Divinity, to exchange boredom for grievances and to dream up a cauldron of crises...
...The more extravagant or peculiar the claims regarding those "rights,, the more credible they become, and the more securely the dope is hooked...
...Women's Liberation is arrant nonsense, but because it is clothed in the highfalutin rhetoric of human rights it has conquered the campus and will soon sear itself into the consciences of e;very American dope...
...No analytical journalist could remain unmoved by the perverse spectacle of mobs of unruly harridans railing away at the cruel injustices of childhood and family...
...The academics pounced on the cheese and now that their disciples have,sniffed the stuff a veritable stampede threatens...
...Further, the turgid disquisitions written by Women's Liberationists ooze with the kind of pseudo-Marxism that spins brilliant flashes of light in the otherwise dank cranium of the average university professor...
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...Shulmuth Firestone announced that "the doctrine of historical materialism, much as it was a brilliant advance over previous historical analysis was not the complete answer," she even outclassed Dr...
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...No other nation is so bored and so demanding of titillation that it would allow dyspepsia to be inflated into a serious topic...
...The sight of them burning piles of underwear drew the cameramen like flies to garbage, and when the media discovered that these feminine idealists subscribed to almost every aspect of incivism abroad in the land, they could do no lfss than devote oceans of print and billows of chitchat to their struggle...
...Though the dope will be mesmerized, by Women's Liberation's flatulent talk of human rights, Women's Liberation is the other trivialization of idealism and dissent...
...R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...The ideologues of militant feminology are twenty-four-carat American revolutionaries...
...Now to reach the Concerned Citizen one must start at the source of all concern and paranoia in modern America, so a year or so ago *the feminologue brought her moonshine to the universities...
Vol. 5 • November 1971 • No. 2
