Yoshie wrote:
Marxist men such as Lou purge me from their comfortably mostly homosocial Marxist environments, so it's no wonder that there are few women who remain Marxist and feminist.
You got purged because you ignored my instructions to stop posting about Iran. In fact, as I pointed out to Marxmail, you undercut your own aims by being so relentless in your defense of the Iranian government in a way that is typical of those "Friendship" committees for Russia or China of yore. Or Jared Israel when he was doing PR for the Serb Republic, or now the government of Israel. You are so off-putting in your selective use of data and your refusal to entertain opposing ideas that it will drive some people to actually develop an aversion to the government of Iran--like Pavlov's dogs in reverse. I had to restrain myself from signing Joanne Landy's latest open letter on Iran after reading your 9 thousandth defense of the Islamic Republic. It is like Netflix. I found myself wanting to kill the people who ran it after having their stupid pop-up ads show up on every website I visited. It was only after an old friend told me that it was a worthwhile enterprise that I joined. Who knows, maybe your real goal is to get people to hate Shi'ite radicalism rather than to open up their eyes to a new way of looking at things. If this is the case, you are doing a damned good job.
