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"An awful way to spend the day ... unless they get in the kitchen and make a great meal after all the bitching."

By Eric Muller

Ann Althouse announces an upcoming conference on feminist legal theory at the University of Wisconsin, and all misogynist hell breaks loose in her comments, especially from some of her most frequent commenters. Nauseating stuff ... and Ann remains curiously silent (except to note that the program features some men, and to encourage people to hit her blog's tip jar). Ann has blogged quite a bit about her own feminism, and has criticized some powerful people whom she sees as feminism's false friends. So it's hard to understand her wanting to provide a forum for the sort of filth her commenters are spewing. My theory: this was a ploy to drum up fodder for conversation at the conference. She set up a blank screen for her commenters to reveal themselves. If this was her strategy, it was brilliant, and it worked.

Full post as published by Is That Legal on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).