Phallocrats of the World, Unite
This letter to the editor at SIU about embattled professor Jonathon Bean is hilarious if parody, and even funnier if real. The letter begins:
To the Editor:
My eyes were edged with tears as I read Caleb
Hale's article in the Southern which exposed Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale history ("His-Story") Professor Jonathan Bean as a racist
hate-mongering phallocrat.
"Phallocrat" -- I love that term! Great name for a new political party. Stealing a joke shamelessly from one of the commenters: "you are going to elect a dick anyway, so vote Phallocrat".
Backstory on the whole blowup at SIU is here, but the gist is that professor Bean is being excoriated for having the temerity to suggest one (1) piece of optional reading in his course (which has scads of required reading from African-American writers about white racism) about an incident of black racism.
Update: Oh no! The campus phallocrats are meeting stiff resistance in Rhode Island.
