SOURCE: Kanfer, Stefan. “Problems of Craft.” New Leader 125, no. 16 (14-18 December 1992): 26-7.

In the following review, Kanfer asserts that Oleanna is “inconsistent” and possesses a “confused purpose.”

Hero is the surprising word that men employ when they speak of Jack the Ripper.

Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch

Decently married bedrooms across America are the settings for nightly rape.

Robin Morgan, Editor of Ms.

I present the exhibits above in defense of David Mamet. In the public print and on numerous radio call-in shows, hard-line feminists have been attacking his new play, Oleanna. They claim that it distorts their aims and rhetoric. But how could anyone—even a lowly male—draw caricatures more ludicrous than the ones provided by the ideologues themselves? Had they attacked the dramaturgy or the direction they might have...