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...read the volumes of outraged male commentary, you'd think Lorena Bobbitt had got her training in a feminist guerrilla camp and her carving skills from the SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto. "Go out into the world," her trainers must have told her, "find some sexist lowlife, preferably an ex- Marine named John Wayne, and, you know...
...Lorena Bobbitt is in many ways just your typical small-town multicultural manicurist, a woman whose ideas of political science are summed up in a statement she made about Venezuela, where she grew up: "I have a patriotism . . . We do have McDonald's. We do have Pizza Hut." Nor are the women who harassed Dr. James Sehn's wife in a McLean, Virginia, beauty parlor because he had helped reattach the offending organ known to be commandos from the National Organization for Women. In fact, the really interesting thing about the Bobbitt affair is the huge divergence it reveals between...
...feminist intellectuals seem slightly out of touch, it's because they're preoccupied these days with their own factional matters, such as the great standoff over the subject of victimhood. On the pro-victimhood side are the legions of domestic-abuse specialists who see Lorena Bobbitt as one more martyr in women's long, weepy history of rape and abuse. On the anti side are feminist authors like Naomi Wolf and Wendy Kaminer, who claim that women have been turning away from feminism because they're sick and tired of hearing about victims and "victimology": foot binding, battering, genital mutilation...
Harvard students often consider themselves a cut above, but a few this week decided to reach below the belt with a prank against Women Appealing for Change (WAC) featuring "wife with the knife" Lorena Bobbitt...
Nancy Archer is the goofy, exaggerated incarnation of a character we know well: she is every Victorian heroine anguished by her own passivity, every sit-com wife stuck in a split-level with a Michelob-loving numbskull. She is the woman who has had enough -- Thelma or Louise, or Lorena Bobbitt minus a kitchen knife...