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...their annual Revue spoof edition, some Law Review editors included an article titled "He-Manifesto of Post Mortem Legal Feminism (From The Desk of May Doe)," a parody of an article published in the Law Review in March entitled "a Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto," by late New England School of Law professor Mary Joe Frug. Frug was brutally murdered on a Cambridge street last April...
...sick parody is not only an insult to Frug's family, whose husband (a professor of law) and son (a member of the Class of '93) are members of the Harvard community, but to feminists, women and thinking people everywhere. Spoof editors wrote "Then we go out at night to hunt down some hunky men and rip their clothes off. Sure, it's degrading, but we've all carefully selected wimps for husbands. Like Jerry," a reference to Frug's widower, Gerald...
...five other Lampoon members distributed the eight-page spoof at Dartmouth Friday. The Lampoon will issue the parody to Harvard students today...
...professors disagreed with the earlier letter's claim that the recent parody of murdered feminist scholar Mary Joe Frug's piece in the spoof edition of the Law Review was a symptom of a larger problem of sexism at the Law School. The piece con- tained what critics claimed to be misogynisticand insensitive comments...
Kennedy's memo drew a response from three of his colleagues, including Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who called the furor over the spoof a "McCarthyite witch hunt" in his syndicated Los Angeles Times column yesterday...