1. In a 1'71 magazine piece about the new women‘s liberation movement, Mailer equated the dehumanizing effect of technology with what he said was feminists‘ need to abolish the mystery, romance and blind, goat–kicking lust‘‘ from sex.

2. He had serious opinions on everything there was to have an opinion on, and everything he had was so original,‘‘ said friend William Kennedy, author of Ironweed.‘‘ Mailer‘s suspicion of technology was so deep that while most writers used typewriters or computers, he wrote with a pen, some 1,500 words a day, in what Newsweek‘s Sokolov called an illegible and curving hand.‘‘ When a stranger asked him on a Brooklyn street if he wrote on a computer, he replied, No, I never learned that,‘‘ then added, in a mischievous aside, but my girl does.‘‘ In a 1'71 magazine piece about the new women‘s liberation movement, Mailer equated the dehumanizing effect of technology with what he said was feminists‘ need to abolish the mystery, romance and blind, goat–kicking lust‘‘ from sex.