The feminist critic finally weighed in on her so-called twitter feud with Ayelet Waldman, or, as she refers to Michael Chabon's wife, "Mrs. C."

According to Ms. Roiphe, a twitter battle isn't a battle if it is one-sided. She has never used Twitter (although she says her daughter set up an account to give herself a follower).

Ms. Roiphe found out about Ms. Waldman's tweets after acquaintances began bringing them to her attention, and blogs started writing about them.

"Indeed, it's beginning to seem like everyone I have ever stood next to in an elevator suddenly harbors a great desire to talk to me about Mrs. C. They want to hear what I have to say about Mrs. C. How do I feel about Mrs. C? The only thing I know for sure, by this point, is that half of New York City is very closely following the twittered moods of Mrs. C."

Instead of firing back on twitter, Ms. Roiphe went after one of the bedrocks of the Internet—schadenfreude. But that doesn't mean she didn't get in a couple of shots at Ms. Waldman:

"Would Mrs. C., if she ran into me at a bar, confront me, or maybe throw a drink at me? I would say probably not (though Mrs. C. may be a bit volatile, so I can't be sure)."

@Ayeletw has been uncharacteristically quiet in response. Either she is too busy weighing in on the narrowly averted government shutdown, or she knows that her knives are useless in this gunfight.

As part of the new tradition of referencing famous husbands through twitter, Ms. Waldman is using the medium to air her grievances against Ms. Roiphe.

"I am so BORED with Katie Roiphe's 'I like the sexist drunk writers' bullshit. She happily trashes my husband, but guess what bitch?... He not only writes rings and rings and rings around you, but the same rings around your drunken literary love objects," tweeted ayeletw.

The occasion for the outburst was Katie Roiphe's essay in the New York Times style section yesterday. The essay was about her mother, Anne Roiphe's, new memoir Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason.

Although Katie Roiphe does not actually mention Chabon this time, she did last December when she made the case for the masculinity of midcentury Great Male Writers rather than the sensitivity of the current crop of writers who are often named Jonathan.

Kate Roiphe first became famous, and controversial, when she questioned the idea of date rape in the politically correct 1990's. Anne Roiphe's new book is about a time when it was more realistic for a woman with literary aspirations to type her husband's manuscripts than her own. Ayelet Waldman, an author in her own right, is most well-known for a modern love columnabout how she is more committed to her husband than her children.

"I do not like it when people insult those I love," explained Ms. Waldman at the end of her twitter rant last night, or as she tweeted today, it is "the urge to go crazy on the asses of your spouse's detractors."