Ada Calhoun, if indirectly, address much of what's problematic with Muscio's "Cunt" - the assumption that all women posses an array of similarities because of biology, ignoring the history of deliberate false accusations of rape against men of color, etc. - but in the process she makes some comments I'm not too comfortable with as well. For one, it seems she is criticizing Muscio for not fitting into some version of boring, relatively conservative feminism.

For one, she negatively refers to Muscio's lack of respect for the rule of law. But isn't law a tool most often used by the powerful to torture, imprison and divide us (see the "Mountain States Put Most Women in Prison" post)? And her treatment of Muscio's new book dealing with white supremacy reveals an ignorance bordering complicity - she points to Muscio's take on public school curriculum as "lightly veiled white male supremacist racist propaganda", and her hatred of Columbus Day, as evidence of being a "crack-pot." Has Calhoun never been in a school? I come from a family of teachers and worked for two years as a social worker with the Dept. of Education, I think Muscio is pretty right on with her assesment of public school curriculum. And Columbus Day is shit, it celebrates the arrival of patriarchy and colonial oppression to the americas. I agree with Muscio - "Fuck Columbus Day."

While I agree with Calhoun that Scala carrying "Cunt" into a courtroom does not challenge patriarchy, niether does Calhoun's insistence that feminism be upright, law-abiding and friendly to Columbus Day.

Nobody makes a big deal about our own neighborhood "Fuzzy's Tacos." (Actually it might be a small chain.) Their specialty, of course, is fish tacos, and the shirts say, "If it looks like a taco and tastes like a fish, it must be a tasty dish." Which I'm sure is a decades old, charming toast, anyway.