[Right Wing Professor]

Exactly what we'd expect from an oppressive, phallocentric, man of "science" such as you, privileging the European male experience over other equally valid narratives as you do, don't you? Admit it, sexist, capitalist, pig-dog ;)

Admit it? Hell, I'm proud of it!

Seriously, though, I'm delighted to look at whatever there is of value from other cultures that European males have ignored. Trouble is, I just don't run into very much of it. And when European males really do take what's valuable from other cultures (gunpowder, for example), we get accused of being colonialist.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't, so let's just let the natives/feminists/commies revert back to mud huts, female genital mutilation and preventable sexually treansmitted diseases, and come back in 200 years when they've killed each other off.

[general_re]

Seriously, though, I'm delighted to look at whatever there is of value from other cultures that European males have ignored. Trouble is, I just don't run into very much of it.

I think it was Saul Bellow who said "Show me the Proust of the Papuans, and I'll read it," and who was, of course, instantly attacked for his "racism"...

Damned if you do, damned if you don't, so let's just let the natives/feminists/commies revert back to mud huts, female genital mutilation and preventable sexually treansmitted diseases, and come back in 200 years when they've killed each other off.

Sayyyy, I like the way you think. That must go over well at faculty meetings ;)