Le maudit Mo D.

well, crap, i can totally breathe free now

Gloria Steinem '56, arbiter of all things Ladycollege-holy, has offered a pronouncement on the death of Behemoth. I've been sitting here for the last few days wondering if I'm an enemy of all things related to the Ladycollege paradigm. But since Glo said it, it is sacrosanct. From New York Magazine:

In an interview a few minutes after her address, Steinem made it plain that she didn't regard Mailer as a total enemy of feminism. "He wasn't hostile like the ultra-right-wing anti-feminists — he just didn't get it," said the svelte black-clad liberation leader who knew Mailer personally, having run for city comptroller on his secessionist ticket along with columnist Jimmy Breslin, a candidate for president of the city council. "And he will leave an absence because he was an original. He was a wonderful writer, and I always thought The Prisoner of Sex was a good title," explained Steinem, referring to an essay Mailer wrote for Harper's that provoked an acrimonious 1971 Town Hall debate between Mailer and feminists like Village Voice writer Jill Johnson and Australian author Germaine Greer. "He was a prisoner of sex."

If I can't think on my own terms, occasionally be charmed by an asshole man, hold my own in embittered online improv arguments, make fun of bitches who once said out loud, in response to a hip-hop lyric about "nasty salad" that said lyric was sexist because "everyone knows that the vagina looks like high quality lettuce," and accept the fact that the only woman who gets to be Gloria is Gloria herself, then fuck it, I ain't coming to the party.