No, it’s not just…
No, it’s not just you. Yes, the drive-by sneer is nasty, unwarranted, and sexist.
However.
piny:
Now, B/L does not mince words. She is splenetic. At no point does she use the passive voice. But she is arguing. She is engaging with the text. Whatever you might think about her logic, or her motives, or her activities and beliefs on other levels, she’s making arguments about what MacKinnon is saying and how MacKinnon has said it.
That’s not a full description of what B/L is doing, though. Here’s her own self-explanation in a comment on this series of posts:
it’s part of the “no more ms. nice bitch†series and, as such, i’m purposefully not being fair, or nice, or reasonable, or any such thing. why? because this book, the one that’s inspring these rants, is, itself, not fair, or nice, or reasonable, or any such thing.
How much is “engaging with the text” supposed to be worth if the rules of engagement are openly and deliberately unfair and unreasonable?
Anticopyright.