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- From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Sophie Tucker is a Sexist Sow. :-)
- Summary: "Copulate and kill" is bad reasoning.
- Keywords: Oh Well, I never *claimed* to be a "gentleman" or "REAL Man," anyway..
- Message-ID: <19507@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:33:25 GMT
- References: <1992Dec27.183255.8756@zooid.guild.org>
- Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1992Dec27.183255.8756@zooid.guild.org> goid@zooid.guild.org
- (Will Steeves) writes:
-
- >matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt) writes...
-
- >MR>But this time I'll do it as the great Sophie Tucker did it 55 years ago
- >MR>in Cole Porter's musical, "Leave It to Me." Because the kind of
- >MR>reasoning that seeks to let men "copulate and run" away from their
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >MR>responsibilities -- that kind of behavior simply gives all men
- >MR>an undeserved bad name: [Matt Rosenblatt]
-
- >I noticed that you haven't recently posted very much about "the reasoning
- >that seeks to let women 'copulate and kill'" in order to run away from their
- >"responsibilities," though. [Will Steeves]
-
- How recent is "recently"? It seems to me that on December 14, I quoted
- with approval the following by Andrea Dworkin, feminism's prize thinker:
-
- "There is the fear of having murdered: not someone, not real
- murder; but of having done something hauntingly wrong. . . .
- She has been having children in her mind, and getting her value
- through them, since she herself was a baby. Little girls believe
- that dolls are real babies. Little girls put dolls to sleep,
- feed them, bathe them, diaper them, nurse them through illnesses,
- teach them how to walk and how to talk and how to dress -- love
- them. Abortion turns a woman into into a murderer all right:
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- she kills her allegiance to Motherhood First. This is a crime.
- She is guilty: of not wanting a baby." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- -- _Right-Wing Women_ (New York: Perigee, 1983), p. 74.
-
-
- -- Matt Rosenblatt
- (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)
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