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This line and variations thereupon—this latest comes from Wendy Doniger, a decorated duchess of feminism who holds sway at the University of Chicago, quoted by Bill Kristol today—have given a not-small revelation: a quiet codicil to the cant of Leftist academe: certain women may no longer be called ‘women’ at all. The world’s gender studies departments have decided that the appellation itself is malaprop in connection to women who do not obey their prescribed pieties. It is a consequence of that sickly social construct view of sex: the construct can be made to collapse; one’s sex can be lost; thus Doniger’s description of Sarah Palin, stripped, of no sex, on account of her incorrect opinions. If this affords any kind of a picture into what the world might be like if the gender studies faculty ran it, we can surmise that their methods would be rather — masculine. Rather brutish.

There was another instance of the language change in this weekend’s Valley News, the little newspaper of Hanover and its surrounds. Some unfortunate headlined his editorial: “Sarah Palin is not a woman” and then labored eight hundred words trying to make it true. I think our dear Diane intends to respond do that editorial anon.