IN FEBRUARY, a feminist blogger reviewed the PBS documentary Southern Belle. She was shaken to the core:

Last week at the Oxford film festival, I saw the scariest film I had seen in a good, long while. The monster that re-emerged from its crypt was not a slime-covered zombie, exactly. The thing that made me afraid of things that go bump in the night was not a decaying ghoul. She was wearing a hoop skirt, a corset, and she was about sixteen years old, very cute, in fact. My horror was not due to her so much as the people who were using her image to try to take away twenty-first century women’s sense of their own rights and leadership potential.

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A reader writes:

I just read the article and it was foam-at-the-mouth righteousness. One of the comments said Mark Orman, who directs the Southern Belle camp, is being sued for gender discrimination; I’m guessing that a teen-age transvestite wasn’t allowed in and is suing for his “rights.”

Lydia Sherman writes:

It is the same old thing: hatred of our forefathers and their way of life, hatred of the past, and more Victorian bashing.

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