The NYTimes today notes the passing of Monique Wittig, 67, a lunatic lesbian writer who distinguished herself in part by … well, let the Times obit writer tell you: “In her advocacy of a total rupture with masculine culture, she pulled no punches, forcefully arguing, for example, that lesbians are not women because the word woman is constructed by sexist society. In one of her novels, female warriors torture men before tanning and displaying their skin.” Now think about this: if some woman-hating male loony had written a novel in which the male heroes tortured women, skinned them and tanned human hides for display, do you suppose for one second that the Times would have accorded such a deranged monster a respectful notice upon his death?