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I have liked her ever since I read this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/politics/jean-carroll-trump-sexual-assault.html

My mom would have liked her. My mom always preserved the appearance of what she was - a staid, respectable older bureaucrat. But in private (ie just with me and dad) she had a ribald sense of humor. Like all working women those days (she would be about E Jeannes age) she dealt with sexual harassment and other drivel. Though as is often the case, that was a small part of her overall experience much as it has been a small part of my overall experience. But it shouldn’t happen at all.

If by now I wasn’t on principle opposed to the cottage industry of ghost-written personal biographies, I’d buy her book.

I have no idea if E Jeanne considers herself a feminist (a term I only embraced after it fell out of favor with the superficial crowd), but she is one in my book since she hit Trump where it hurts.

(The only explicitly feminist book I own is the SCUM Manifesto (which I read as a parody) ;-/. Solanas was the Tyler Durden of feminists. So even today there is a teeny radical streak in any feminist since Solanas cannot be described as mainstream ;-/. E Jeanne is at least relatively mainstream.

A damn shame Solanas shot Warhol. If there are any lists I wasn’t on, buying the SCUM manifesto probably got me on those. It’s tongue in cheek! And no a man cannot get away with writing stuff like that. That’s the point. It wouldn’t be subversive if a man did hit the average misogynistic worldview distilled. The satire challenged..

Besides who knows..having put the Marbury Lens on I wonder by now how many radicals are basically inadvertent tools of the military industrial complex from Abbie Hoffman and Emma Goldman to Solanas.
Unfortunately some counter culture was spook stuff I suspect-Dadaism, discordianism, a lot of the entertainment industry is at least an inadvertent part of the military industrial complex imo.

One person I am sure isn’t anyone’s dupe is Yasha Levine. The new left (as I think of them) is a source of comfort to me. I can’t think of a person who has contributed more to my mental health than Levine. I hate being a dupe. Otoh most people don’t understand stuff like that well.
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