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Reductive and Anti-Ruminative

November 15th, 2005

Kathryn Harrison on Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide by Maureen Dowd: “what makes Dowd an exceptionally good columnist on the Op-Ed page - her ability to compress and juxtapose, her incisiveness, her ear for hypocrisy and eye for the absurd - does not enable her to produce a book-length exploration of a topic as complex as the relations between the sexes. Consumed over a cup of coffee, 800 words provide Dowd the ideal length to call her readers' attention to the ephemera at hand that may reveal larger trends and developments. But smart remarks are reductive and anti-ruminative; not only do they not encourage deeper analysis, they stymie it.”

Submitted by Richard on Fri, 2005-12-16 23:10. #

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