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Yes, you did distort what I wrote to you. And I already responded to that. I can't take you seriously because of how you distort an other's words; it ...

That I can supply!! But my description will be a bit poetic, because the experience is profound for me. I also write copius notes on the empty pages a...

No, I meant "can," but I had to rush off after I wrote that part. What I don't understand is why your hopes were dashed; surely you have a system of y...

Interesting question: Do we ever read the exact same thing when we re-read? For myself, each reading deepens and broadens the interconnections I make ...

I have notes all over my books that make their way into my publications. It's just how I do it.

Actually, "Epic and Novel" was never the most important essay to me; "Discourse in the Novel" was. I could imagine him in Siberia, rolling his cigaret...

Yeah, you kinda did. And I think it trivializes this discussion.

I can't believe that you put these practices all on the same level. Castration has never been a universal cultural practice the way that female gen. m...

This has clearly never been the case; nor is it now, although feminist philosophy etc. has had serious cachet for the last 40 years. Clearly, for the ...

I see this as primarily a psychological issue because humans have such intense emotional cathexes to their own beliefs and behaviors. It seems to be n...

I have found that the books I've read 8-10 times are the ones I understand really well. I always have my trusty pencil in hand and write copious notes...

I'd like to propose another way of experiencing existential depression, which I've felt deepy and consistently since November 2016. It's not depressio...

The feminine becomes evil when lacking the masculine, but the opposite is never true. At least in Lurianic mysticism, the masculine principle is alway...

I mean the creation of cultural institutions as well as art. Cultural institutions include religion, politics, education, military organization, govt....

It's not that you disagree with me--I have no problem with that--it's you beginning your response by telling me flat out I'm brainwashed. So I respond...

"It is still better to speak only in riddles, allusions, hints, parables. Even if asked to clarify a few points. Even if people plead that they just d...

I see what you are saying, and it's a very good point!! But I never took responsibility away from women: I wasn't talking about women as mothers and h...

Again: we don't know how it would have been had men and women shared power equally. I won't build an argument on speculation, but history leads me to ...

We can agree to disagree: I don't engage with insulting or hostile people. I am convinced that a culture of hostility dominates here and acts as the f...

Your hostility is such a turn off that I can't be bothered to read your response to me. You are a hater.

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But it just so happens that our world has been largely man-controlled, and history tells the story of men behaving badly on the grand stage of things....

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1. I won't make any generalizations about men and women thinking and behaving differently, because it's just too easy to disprove and find the excepti...

There is a definitive translation of the Torah and that is the JPS Study Bible. It's easy to choose the right translation.

Yes, but even the Kabbalists demeaned women in every way possible. Shekhinah becomes an evil being when she is imbalanced by the lack of the masculine...

If you read his essay on Epic vs Novel, he establishes a clear opposition between the closed monological world view of the epic and the problematized ...

I do not agree: I see capitalism as quite a patriarchal edifice, along with all the other major institutions. I shouldn't have to repeat that it's all...

How you behave when you are unconscious of what you're doing reveals a lot of truth. Peoples' behavior is frequently at odds with what they espouse as...

Big difference between collision and collusion, and certainly both are dialogic in any number of great novels I can think of. From "Dialogue in the No...

The economy is the most concrete form there is of how ideology is operating in a given society. I don't know about feminists "blaming" patriarchy; the...

I don't see any logic to your arguments above. I see you wilfully distorting some of the things I wrote, and I conclude that it amuses you to do so. Y...

I will be surprised--nay, amazed--if anyone has the patience to read the above exchange. But of course, anyone has the right to chime in.

Go back and read again, buddy. I work at a university and I'm paid to teach a subject matter. I don't teach or practice anarchy. So back to the crysta...

I teach many different things to my students. Is that really so hard to understand? I don't think I've ever known a professor who only taught one thin...

I wrote, concrete circumstances--not special. And certainly, you can assume any number of absurdities that you wish. I don't think you and I mean the ...

I don't know if this will help or just send us farther down the rabbit hole. I teach a subject matter; students pass or fail my classes. I hand out a ...

I'm not da man; I'm da woman. And if you knew the concrete circumstances of my students, you would realize that this isn't an exercise in following th...

You asked me what I answer. I told you. Next you write that it doesn't address your question at all. That is confusing. And I was not calling you a tr...

For me, it only conjures up negative associations and a fundamental imbalance.

I challenge this assertion. I have found that both online and in person, it takes time to learn another's language with its nuances and inflections. T...

When they excel in the subject matter (in the Humanities), they earn As. I tell them, It doesn't matter if you never use this subject matter again in ...

I thought about this on and off all day. One of the challenges of cyber-communication is, indeed, staying focused and to the point, and another one is...

I remember her from the late 80s, but I never took her very seriously. I loved the French psychoanalytic feminists, though: them I could take seriousl...

Teaching to transgress by bell hooks: I teach subversively, but so far I've avoided being tortured to death; they can't do that after they give you te...

I think Paglia's statement is stupid. To suggest that patriarchy produced birth control pills seems tantamount to saying that all science is patriarch...

Not all women are feminists and some women are very identified with and supportive of the values of patriarchy. But I find it impossible to believe th...

This statement seems a bit dated, since for decades there have been many feminisms--lesbian, of color, working class, etc.--that address different sub...

I like Paulo Freire's concept of the student-teacher and the teacher-student in collaboration. I have always learned a great deal from my students, fo...

I was by no means reducing his meaning to my one example of how to apply his ideas in terms of interpersonal dynamics. I believe you're referring to h...