Comments on: and not only the arguments, one suspects

By: SamChevre

SamChevre — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:18:42 +0000

Those of you with good internet access need to read, if it’s still available, Uther Pendragon’s piece that starts, “Johanna Mill was 5’4” and on the pill.” It’s on asstr, to which I don’t have access.

By: Feminist Law Professors » Blog Archive » “Sex and the College Girl” Circa 1957

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:42:36 +0000

[...] The Atlantic Monthy, via Crooked Timber. Below is an excerpt: … Since so many of us are going to college, a great many of our [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:25:00 +0000

I knew a fellow who used John Stuart Mill to similar effect.

By: jake

jake — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:10:32 +0000

The first comment nailed it.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:11:54 +0000

You can’t fault the predictions:

Perhaps history will prove that we are a buffer generation, standing by silently while our children, brought up by demand-feeding and demand-everything, kick over the traces and do startling things, with none of our predilection for playing it safe.

By: ozma

ozma — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:33:46 +0000

That kind of thing always worked on me, I have to say.

By: Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:54:59 +0000

I have to say, I thought that article was actually a lot smarter and more interesting than I expected from your post. The paragraph you quote was definitely a low point, and there were plenty of dated bits to laugh at, but I liked it.

It’s also funny to see the author’s so-familiar attitude towards her parents’ generation: the twenties really were the sixties of the fifties.

By: Delicious Pundit

Delicious Pundit — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:49:14 +0000

#5. See also the Dover Bitch:

….It’s true she had read
Sophocles in a fairly good translation
And caught that bitter allusion to the sea,
But all the time he was talking she had in mind
The notion of what his whiskers would feel like
On the back of her neck.

By: JP Stormcrow

JP Stormcrow — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:35:32 +0000

13.2 -> 4

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:18:47 +0000

I don’t know about Tom Lehrer, but Ms Alyssa Lerner can teach modern chaps how to strike the deal. A bonus – looks like an amoral type also contributes (not sure I can vouch for the intellectual part)

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/34198

By: vivian

vivian — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:11:34 +0000

Well, I wound up marrying the man who, on our first date, was fascinated to discuss the paper I was writing on Catherine MacKinnon. Not that CMK would have much patience for Nietzsche or postmodernism though.

Where’s Bérubé this evening – to what obscure or pretentious literary figures do English majors appeal when wooing? And does spelling count?

By: Kieran Healy

Kieran Healy — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:03:13 +0000

live today,

Had we but world enough, and time

By: Tom Hurka

Tom Hurka — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:46:52 +0000

How could you want to get action from a woman who wanted you because you quoted from Nietzsche?

By: Nick L

Nick L — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:15:10 +0000

‘Does nobody do this anymore? :(’

A friend of mine was rather infamous for his ability to woo Erasmus (visitors from European universities) ladies. Apparently his technique involved liberal deployment of quotes from Nietzsche. So hey, continental philosophy seems to remain a good way to get action on campus.

By: Drake

Drake — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:56:03 +0000

What I’m wondering is who our intellectual-amoral type of man is “[e]ven more complicated to deal with” than.

Plus, I’ve always wanted to end a sentence with two prepositions.