What has this woman made of herself?

In the May-June edition of HArvard Magazine, the alumni organ for Harvard University, is a letter to the editor from a woman in the Midwest.

She decried the March-April edition of the magazine because its cover degraded women. She said the magazine is too liberal for her, a conservative and that she threw the edition in the garbage and has asked that no further copies be sent to her.

I just happened to still have the March-April edition in my house. The cover illustrates the lead story, called "Resisting Temptation: Economic Discovers the Irrational," which deals with why people gratify their immediate needs, ignoring long range planning and often due what is destructive to themselves and the planet, as well as to their children, present and future.

The cover art work that this woman finds so objectionable is actually a lovely painting, whose style makes it apparent that it is from the Mauve Decade. It is a decidedly romantic and lush representation of the attempts of the Sirens to seduce Ulysses and his men. Painted by Herbert James Draper in 1909, the painting is called, aptly, "Ulysses and the Sirens," and features the hero bound to his mast while his stern faced men row and the sirens, admittedly lovely in a child-like way, and nude, attempt to clambor on board.

This is pornagraphy? That is what the writer claims! This degrades women?

I have trouble dealing with conservatives who call themselves feminists.

This woman, however, obviously knows nothing about art history or about Greek myths. Harvard should revoke her diploma.

Oh! Perhaps, she is just some bimbo some not too attractive Harvard grad married.