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Blum dismisses bad research with the right touch of scorn, but does not feel a need to neutralize it with politically palatable agitprop.
I was hopeful when I read on Page 15 her complaint that "popular accounts of the male crisis and male confusions are almost unrelievedly ahistorical," but I was crestfallen some pages later, when she identifies some of the deep historical structures that might have allowed her to unravel her data, and then dismisses them as irrelevant:
The New York Times ' Janet Maslin, for one, dismisses other reviewers for misunderstanding the film: "If watched sufficiently mindlessly, it might be mistaken for a dangerous endorsement of totalitarian tactics and super-violent nihilism in an all-out assault on society," but she sees it instead as an investigation of "the lure of violence in an even more dangerously regimented, dehumanized culture."
Mintz dismisses our regional cuisines--New England, Southern, Cajun, Pennsylvania Dutch--because they have been ruined by the environmental impact of overfishing local stocks, and by ferocious marketing that dilutes their "authenticity" and ends in "bowdlerization."
Safire dismisses the exculpatory remarks by Hubbell concerning Hillary's innocence, etc. as what FBI parlance calls "tickling the wire"--producing self-serving statements because you know you are being overheard.