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[rozk]

In a puff piece about Sheila Jeffreys' new book here , Bindel cheerfully accepts Jeffreys' claim that heterosexual marriage is closely related to prostitution. She also uncritically accepts Jeffreys' claim that 5% of the Netherlands' GDP is prostitution-related; if you read further, it is clear that Jeffreys regards any economic activity in which prostitution has any role as totally implicated. Thus, taxi-drivers, and presumably other forms of transport, move prostitutes and punters around and are so profiting from the sex industry. I'd call this shoddy research, and even shoddier scholarship, but I am hopelessly biased against both women...

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[steepholm.livejournal.com]

One thing I don't understand about Bindel's friendly attitude towards Jeffreys is that SJ was the person who famously argued that, on political grounds, "all feminists can and should be lesbians" (I quote from Bindel's earlier article on her). Yet, when the existence of political lesbians was alluded to recently she threatened to sue the alluder for libel. Isn't there some kind of mismatch there?

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

"she threatened to sue the alluder for libel"

"she" here being Bindel, not Jeffreys, of course.

[rozk.livejournal.com]

Dr Johnson says in his edition of Shakespeare that to pick all the holes in Cymbeline| that it is possible to pick is 'to waste criticism on unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection and too gross for aggravation'.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

He wasn't wrong. But at least Cymbeline has some good poetry, and a rare puff for Milford Haven.