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- From: owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen Rowley)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Dworkin (was Re: Liberty)
- Message-ID: <18229@autodesk.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:17:26 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.144024.28676@tc.cornell.edu> <1992Dec23.055209.27606@panix.com>
- Sender: news@Autodesk.COM
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- In article <1992Dec23.055209.27606@panix.com>, mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon) writes:
- > In article <18223@autodesk.COM> owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen Rowley) writes:
- >
- > >this kind of bitterness upsets me.
- > bitterness?????
-
- yeah bitterness, thats what it sounded like to me.
-
- > >In the paragraph of yours above you say that it pleases you that Andrea
- > >Dworkin pisses men off, and objectifys them in a dehumanising way.
- > >You go on to rationalise that by saying that you think it will help
- > >them get their heads straight about the way they treat women and make
- > >changes accordingly.
-
- > rationalize?????
-
- yeah, thats what it sounded like to me.
-
- > Owen -- I realize I am no more your notion of a cogent observer than
- > Melinda is, but you seem weirdly out of touch here. Melinda is saying
- > no more than this:
- >
- > Male assurances of "understanding" the problems of systematic
- > oppression of women amount to a hill of beans. Most men have
- > ZERO comprehension of what it is to be the object of a total
- > societal negation.
-
- I understand that because as a radical homosexual with an agenda
- that I won't hide, I've been there.
-
- I also understand what passes for understanding amongst strayt white men
- because I lived my life as one for 35 years.
-
- > If Dowrkin can get men, for a *few* moments
- > of their oh-so-precious time to see an absolute negation of
- > their worth, they *may* [if they have some capacity for clues]
- > begin to *feel* (and not dismiss by abstraction) what women
- > generally have to put up with every bloody second of their
- > lives.
-
- Strayt white men won't give Andrea Dworkin the time of day, never mind an
- oportunity to spread her bitter memes.
-
- I happen to know quite a few women who don't put up with it, who center
- their self-worth within themselves and get on with their lives and
- tasks.
-
- Perhaps some of that is because I am a Pagan, and in our religion, the
- feminine is reflected in our cosmological scheme as a creator Goddess...
-
- I've always wondered at the situation within the Yahweh cults, where
- women are oficially classified as second class beings?
-
- > Have a nice day.
-
- thanx :-)
-
- LUX ./. owen
-
- --
- D. Owen Rowley {uunet,fernwood,sun}!autodesk!owen
-
- " It will be a cold March 17th that I celebrate the imposition of
- Romes rule, on Pagan Ireland. Erin go ppphhhhhttttttt! "
-