Homo ad hommem
From Professor Robin Fax Sir: Mr Liam Hudson's review of The Imperial Animal has just reached me, and while his total inability to grasp the argument of the book will 'he clear to any reader of it, the ad horninem insults to which he resorts to cover up his ignorance deserve comment. Tiger Ft nri I project ourselves as " he-men " he says. Well, Mr Hudson doe; some interesting projecting of his own. Note how he completely ignores our arguments about " politirg " AS an offshoot of selection in sexually reproducing species (and for that matter our arguments about kin
ship, economics, education, medicine, war, etc), and his obsessive concentration on stray passages taken out of context which have to do with sexual domination of females. Having indulged in this extraordinary feat of literary voyeurism he hastens to add at the end the sanctimonious note that he is "more androgynous" than the rest of us! Really — critics who live in glass houses should know when to turn the lights off.
Robin Fox
Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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