[Poison Pill]

we may call it a feminist face test in which we will be tempted away from bardolatry and treated all in the way to some very lyrical praise of women.” ...

Let me guess; single, 45, homely, drives a Prius, lots of cats.

[1rudeboy]

“The fact is, even if you sign up for a course with ‘Shakespeare’ or ‘Faulkner’ in the title, there’s absolutely no guarantee that you’re going to be taught English or American literature . . . .”

To: Joseph Blotner
Professor Emeritus, The University of Michigan

I miss you and your stories about hanging out with "Bill" Faulkner, and the gentleman's C you gave me after I wrote that term paper about Light in August.

He began the first day of class by saying, "if I say 'he' or 'his' during a discussion of any character, I mean 'he and she,' or 'his and her.' So don't interrupt me."

[TheWriterTX]

Any creature who claims to have studied Shakespeare, and then further claims that Shakespeare was a misogynist, is lying.

Exhibit 1, this testament to Shakespeare's love, found in Sonnet #29.

Exhibit 2, Romeo's love and devotion to Juliette was so intense, that he took his life rather than live without her.

Exhibit 3, his description of the beauty of a pregnant woman in Midsummer Night's Dream.

Uhmmmm...shall I go on, or have I sufficiently proved my point?

FemiNazis look for signs of hatred towards women because they are convinced that men are incapable of real love; all is just a pretense, an illusion, for their prime motivation - intercourse.

FemiNazis are the true haters, they are just too stupid to realize it. They hate themselves, they hate men. They are irritating to the extreme.

Please note, feminists and FemiNazis are very different. There are conservative, pro-life feminists out there; I'm one of them.

[wildbill]

When taking my MA in Lit. after a hiatus from school of about 30 years, I was excited about finally studying the Bard at a graduate level.

Unfortunately, the course was taught by a rabid feminist and all the books in the syllabus were about Shakespeare from the feminist point of view.

It didn[t take long to see that any discussion in class or papers that questioned that point of view would lead to a terrible grade.

Reluctantly I decided to drop the class rather than play ball with that lady.