Comments on: Blaise Cronin emulates Michael Gorman

By: Dorothea Salo

Dorothea Salo — Tue, 03 May 2005 22:54:47 +0000

Hm. One wonders if this was a clumsy bid for Michael Gorman’s favor, in that case?

I mean, as long as we’re spinning conspiracy theories…

By: Connie

Connie — Mon, 02 May 2005 20:33:05 +0000

Respected? Not by the public librarians in his own state. He is considered to have pretty much destroyed library education at IU in favor of “informatics”. We all cheered when he resigned. We still can’t figure out why they hired him back.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:34:51 +0000

Cronin is Coulter’s more lady-like twin and from her has learned that bluster and barbs get attention when one has nothing else to say. The former has laid out his misogyny quite clearly in Library Journal: “The Dean’s List- Amazons R Us,”by Blaise Cronin.Oct 15, 2001.

By: Dorothea Salo

Dorothea Salo — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:28:49 +0000

I really, truly can’t think of much to say. Except that I’m glad our SLIS director isn’t a raving ja — er, sorry.

Okay, I lied. I can think of something to say; it just takes a better rhetorician than I to say it correctly and back it up. There’s a valuing of certain sorts of text over certain other sorts of text here that tends to upset me. “Domestic” writing, “everyday” writing, casual or non-professional writing is consistently what’s getting slagged. I don’t even see much allowance for the relative competence of the writing. If it’s domestic, it’s bad.

I can’t find it in my heart to think it coincidence that much of the slagged writing is coded as women’s writing, even when men do it too. (The counterpoint to this argument, I admit, is that the other common coding is as young people’s writing.)

What are the Gormans and Cronins afraid of? That somebody might actually listen to a GIRL, instead of Their High Mightinesses? Heaven forfend.

Maybe it’s no coincidence that our SLIS director isn’t a raving you-know-what. She is, after all, a she.