Anti-Climacus

LINK AND QUOTE: First, read Jonah Goldberg's G-File from yesterday, a collection of intriguing, if occasionally inflammatory, thoughts about contemporary feminism. Then read an e-mail response to the column, as posted on The Corner:

"Who on earth gave you a column? Who thought you could write?
But more importantly, why do you express such ridiculous opinions in the 21st century?
You are the most rabid misogynist I've ever had the misfortune to read.
You wouldn't recognize a feminist if you stepped on one barefoot - which is where you'd no doubt have all women - underfoot.
What kind of cretin are you that you would call women "chicks?"
Even men MY age don't call women chicks. They know it's the equivalent of calling a black person the "N" word.
You don't grasp that, do you?
All during the Clinton years I watched you and your spooky mother (she IS a woman, isn't she? I was never sure) and I could not believe that supposedly intelligent people would listen to people like you.
Yet you and Ann Coulter and your ilk prospered because Bill and Hillary Clinton were so hated, you'd go to any length or stoop to any depth to get rid of them.
When you failed to to it legally, you resorted to character assassination.
You succeeded in making the president's into a joke.
Clinton himself was the ONLY civil person in the entire picture.
Trust me. I'd give anything to have Bill Clinton back in the White House, or to have Al Gore there where he RIGHTFULLY belongs."

Now here is where my page ended. But the truly hilarious part was below the fold (isn't it always?):

"It's those like you who get paid to be ridiculous - you and the Rush Limbaughs, the Oliver Norths, the Sean Hannitys, the Drudges, the O'Reillys, the ARROGANT POMPOUS TESTOSTERONE POISONED JERKS OF THE WORLD - who have ruined this great country.

It's too bad Al Gore didn't get to be inaugurated.

Had HE been in office, the mess on Sept. 11 would never have happened.
So blame your pretender to the throne for the attacks.
He's the biggest jerk ever to have been governor, and certainly the biggest jerk ever to have traveled out of Texas - and that's a BIG role!
Thanks for getting my adrenaline pumping. I don't have to go for coffee now.
Just consider me one of the old persons or one of the loons.
But certainly consider me a dyed-in-the-wool feminist. And consider my husband, my sons and my daughters feminists, too.
And consider yourself a cretin with such a low forehead, your eyes barely show.
And consider your wife perhaps one of the most unfortunate creatures God ever put into a woman's body.
Give her my sympathy.
And tell her we feminists are looking for new members who have been on "the other side" and have seen the light."

Well, it's good to see that rational, well-considered debate is still fashionable.