on a rational level, this is xtremely difficult to understand: we had friendly relations with heather, promoted her work, and she asked us to publish these excerpts herself. How could she forget ? that seems so impossible to fathom.
and once she knew about the oversight, why did she not relent, but on the contrary escalated?
If I may add a few thoughts... Having studied this issue a bit myself, I have come to the conclusion that despite women's equality granted by the law, they still have not the equality in practice. So their only "legitimacy" within the current system -- if they don't want to topple the (homosexual?) patriarchy of Novus Ordo Seclorum -- is getting credit for their work. Here's is the crux of your (and my) disbelief -- a "dilemma" which must be solved by her because it revolves around her own (chosen) belief system and are counter-posed to each other: liberal women have been fighting on behalf of gay men while women, themselves, remain homeless within this current socio-economic system. It is a *irrational* contradiction that liberal females are fighting for gay men while women remain without the power they deserve -- this is the source of crazyness. The whole system is actually bi-polar because of this issue, an otherwise undiagnosed mental illness, which is creating a type of insanity in the system. But don't blame Heather, she is expressing the symptom. -- MarkJ Tacoma, Washington