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- From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Subject: Re: Camillemania
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.041413.12871@netsys.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 04:14:13 GMT
- References: <9212290227.AA06768@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk>
- Organization: Netsys Inc.
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- In article <9212290227.AA06768@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk> Graham Toal <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK> writes:
- >:Posted on 28 Dec 1992 at 02:11:12 by Anne Burton Harwell
- >:>Man, Jim, that's just it. She's right. No sense of humor. Too damn
- >:>serious. A woman can say a lesbian is humorless and not be anti-woman,
- >:>can't she?
- >
- >:The thing I wonder about is whether a lesbian can do that and still not
- >:be anti-lesbian. Or whether she is just obtuse.
- >
- >:Karen
- >
- >Or perhaps being bi she doesn't identify with (political) lesbians as
- >closely as you expect her to?
-
- I doubt that one's expectations have significant bearing on CP's
- position. Paglia, as anyone who has read her would know, makes few
- distinctions and engages in categorical generalizations. As she has
- acknowledged, those who have "rejected" her become her targets for what
- they have done to her rather than for the substance of their position.
- Her "intellectual" critiques rarely (if ever) rise beyond simplistic
- one-liners and ad hominem. This is fine for stand-up comedy and
- demogogues. She feeds many of the negative stereotypes that reinforce
- discrimination.
-