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The Goddess That Failed by Phyllis Chesler Pajamas Media March 5, 2010 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/708/the-goddess-that-failed Send Comment RSS Share: Excerpt: For years now, newly arrived refugees have been contacting me. They write to tell me that they've lost nearly everybody they once knew. Their whole world is gone now. Some whisper over the phone. Others write long letters. They ask me how I've managed. I am talking about ideological refugees from feminism, leftism, gay liberation, socialism, and progressivism. Yesterday, I received a letter from someone in Berkeley. She tells me that, earlier this week, she was "overjoyed to see the feisty Tikvah students on the steps of Sproul Plaza giving out Israeli flags and t-shirts and dancing in circles," and how afterwards, some "went to confront the theatre of the absurd, enacting the checkpoints." Referring to the feminist movement in Berkeley, she asks: "Could you ever have believed it? From anti-patriarchy to pro-Hamas in a few decades?" Her letter continues: Read the complete original version of this item...
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