Feminist Loon says, “Logic Is Insane!”

I am not making this up. It's right there in Word of Power by Andrea Nye. I'm reminded of the “Appeal for Sanity” from the Reverend Arthur Belling as reported by Monty Python:

You know, there are many people in the country who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives. It is up to people like you and me who are out of our tiny little minds to try and help these people overcome their sanity. You can start in small ways with ping-pong ball eyes and a funny voice and then you can paint half of your body red and the other half green and then you can jump up and down in a bowl of treacle going ‘squawk, squawk, squawk…’ And then you can go ‘Neurhhh! Neurhhh!’ And then you can roll around on the floor going ‘pting pting pting’…

Okay, she didn't mean that; she meant that logic is male chauvinist. (That rumbling sound was Ayn Rand turning over in her grave.) Apparently, logic has been used as a weapon by an occasional male chauvinist in the past. Somehow, I suspect that more women were in danger of male chauvinists wielding fists than male chauvinists wielding arguments.