[gopwinsin04]

This would have been amusing to see.

[lilylangtree]

Sounds like the graduates are leaving school smarter and wising up to the tactics of the liberal leftist demoncRATS. Makes my heart proud.

[Hildy]

Erica Jong? Were the graduates even born when she had her ONE best seller?

[MikefromOhio]

who the hell is Erica Jong?

[RushCrush]

Who is Eric Jong, has she written anything lately?

Why does every commencement address have to be political?

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...We wanted to throw stuff at her.'...

If I'd been there I would have.

[RushCrush]

This from the college's president: " Her message, that we need to look closely at words and (that) their power is important, I'm sure our audience understands."

I'm SURE the audience that paid thousands upon thousands of dollars to attend this college understands that you chose a crappy commencement speaker!!!

[genew]

her remarks on the power of words: "I want you graduates to get mad when you're deliberately lied to."

They didn't waste any time taking that one to heart, did they?

[ex-snook]

My old home town comes through. Great.

[Veto!]

'It was despicable, said a CSI mother, 'It was personal spewing.'

Jong has made a career and a ton of money with nothing but personal spewing. She even married a psychiatrist (Dr. Jong) in hopes that he'd be eternally fascinated with her personal spewing. He was not.

However, Fear of Flying, her first book, was great fun to read, as she's a clever writer. After that, however, her spewing was repetitive.

[RushCrush]

Go here to sign her website guest book:

http://www.ericajong.com/contact.htm

[JAWs]

For those of you who don't know, her one 'great' novel, the sexually explicit Fear of Flying came out in 1973. It was part of the zeitgeist. In other words, she'd another damned throwback blinking in her saurian manner at the upstart mammals assailing her.

[RushCrush]

Someone posted this on her web page guest book:

Date: 03 Jun 2005 Time: 19:11:56 Comments Dearest Erica, So much talk about truth and lies, I couldn't help but tell you the "real truth"---- YOU SUCK! Thank you for ruining my sister's graduation day with your B.S! -CSI alumni '00

[JAWs]

Am I the only one amused by the institution's initials? CSI. I will stop before I joke about Jong surrounded by a chalk outline.

[Tribune7]

Kudos to the parents and students at the College of Staten Island. From an interview with Erica Jong last year:

"I don't know what's happened to feminism," answered Jong, who was wearing a pink linen jacket and red pants and carrying a pink Marc Jacobs bag. "I see all these young women wanting white weddings and wanting to nab the guy, get the ring--whereas I remember we wanted to get away from all that. Now all of that is back with a vengeance."

(snip)

More important, she added, the kind of fundamental changes that would have turned the rhetoric of the '70s-era feminist movement into, for instance, actual economic parity, didn't happen. "To play devil's advocate for a moment, I remember in my generation when all these women left their husbands," she said. "Gloria Steinem was saying, 'No more alimony, we are not slaves, blah blah blah.' Women went out on their own and their standard of living plummeted. They could not get jobs that were commensurate with their skills or experience. It was still a man's world. And a lot of women who didn't have particular skills, who weren't famous actors or famous writers or famous computer inventors--they went straight into poverty.

(snip)

Though she's written seven other novels, six books of poetry, a memoir, a biography, a critical assessment of Henry Miller, and various other works, it was 1973's "Fear of Flying," selling 7 million copies in the United States alone, that turned Jong into a pop culture icon--an embodiment of the zeitgeist, chastised on national television by a talk-show host who demanded Jong admit she and other feminists just wanted to be able to urinate standing up. She was a champion of female freedom who got letters from women who said her book had inspired them to leave their marriages--and letters from men who wanted her to send them her panties.

[jsh3180]

Kind of reminds me of my son's graduation from Vassar College in May 2003.

Susan Sontag was the keynote speaker, wow, she launched into an anti-Bush tirade that had the parents of the graduates booing.

Now she's dead.

[Cicero]

A forty-minute commencement address. They're lucky their president didn't invite Fidel Castro, or it would have been four hours.

[Major_Risktaker]

Erica Jong

Tell us something we don't know.

[Enterprise]

"Politicians speak the opposite of what they mean."

I sure that was a life changing revelation for the listeners.

[Parmy]

Sen. Patty Murray, the so-called mom-in-tennis-shoes from Washington State, did the same thing at WSU three year ago. Although no one yelled or booed, there were a lot of crossed arms and very little clapping.

[ikka]

The leftists support their own by giving them hefty honorariums for easy work like giving a 30-minute speech - ever notice how people of REAL accomplishment are rarely paraded before the folks getting diplomas?