As you know, the American Values blogger Brad Wilcox suggested that I abandon my feminist positions, based on the remarkable work of "Pioneering neuropsychiatrist" Louann Brizendine in "The Female Brain." Since the Family Scholars blog of the American Values Institute no longer takes comments, I wrote to him to remind him that Mark Liberman had pretty much torn her book into a Million Little Pieces. He was good enough to respond as follows:

"Linda-

Thanks for your "comment." The site is no longer taking comments because they don't have the staff resources at this point to devote to it (takes several hours a day!).

But I have to admit you win this battle. The more I hear about Brizendine the less I like. Too sloppy with the facts. Hey, I like Erma Bombeck but a lot of the claims Brizendine makes are sloppy--like the idea that men think about sex virtually all the time."

On Tuesday, I wrote asking him to retract the attack on me in public, rather than in a private email:

"So when are you going to post this retraction on the Family Scholars Blog? I think it is kind of unfair play to tell me to call my office IN AUGUST and say nothing further when Mark Liberman destroys her patently ridiculous claims every day. I’ll watch and hope that you are faithful to your principles and participate in the retraction fest for this junk, which, I hope, will take less than twenty years this time.

If we did not live in a mass democracy, I’d think this Brizendine business was funny. But any sociologist ought to know enough Tocqueville to know that it’s not funny"

So far, nothing. Exactly which American Value is advanced in using The Female Brain against feminism and then, knowing it to be a bunch of junk, refusing to withdraw the comment. Take it down, Brad. Take it down.