Dear Sirs

I could not help agreeing with the recent review of Phyllis Chesler's Women and Madness (Voice, October 11). After all, you can't have all these unlicensed prophetic visionaries running about saying nasty things about Herod or standing in wells yelling “Alas, Babylon!” As every liberal knows about every radical, that is going too far.

But then just for a teeny moment, the good doctor blew his objective, liberal cool sky-high – and in addition unwittingly substantiated what may be a reason for Ms. Chesler's radical, lesbian stance (if such it is) – i.e. that men, when frightened, threatened, or flustered, can be pretty much depended upon to pull rank and that rank is sexist rank.

I refer to the reviewer's comment about Ms. Chesler's supposed lack of sexual experience outside the clinical situation. Didja ever hear such a fancy version of the old chestnut,

“All she needs is a good –”

book reviewer?

Author's Note

Yeah, the reviewer really said what I said he said. Yeah, guys did a lot of that then. Later Shere Hite published her books and they did it to her. Feh.