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- From: owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen Rowley)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Dworkin (was Re: Liberty)
- Message-ID: <18231@autodesk.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:38:02 GMT
- References: <18223@autodesk.COM> <1992Dec23.055209.27606@panix.com> <1992Dec23.152237.1124@tc.cornell.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec23.152237.1124@tc.cornell.edu>, shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec23.123033.4883@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- > >I took Melinda to be saying, in
- > >effect, that despite that, there is an image that could
- > >be revealing to anyone who will consider it, embedded in
- > >Dworkin's extreme rhetoric.
- >
- > More or less. As I wrote earlier, just because she's wrong
- > about an awful lot doesn't mean that she's wrong about
- > everything. She's starting from what I consider to be a
- > reasonable assumption (the problematic nature of
- > consensuality in unequal relationships) and drawing some
- > outrageous conclusions. That doesn't invalidate her
- > starting point.
-
- I will note that this reflects a completely different mode
- than the previous article you wrote.
- I will take it as evidence that the previous tone was episodic.
-
- > We've discussed, in an earlier thread, that it's hard to
- > "get it" until you've had some direct experience with
- > oppression yourself.
-
- I agree. :-)
-
- > I believe that you can sometimes fix
- > automotive electrical problems by driving really fast
- > across a bump. I believe that you can sometimes fix
- > hardware problems by power-cycling. Sometimes tripping
- > over a book on the library floor can help put a problem in
- > a new perspective.
-
- yes those things *may* work in some set of circumstances, but would
- you reccomend them as an all purpose methodology?
-
- well in the case of power cycling, actually, I do. :-)
-
- > And if Andrea Dworkin can jolt some men
- > into considering *why* they get so angry with her, then she
- > will at least have accomplished something. Mind you, the
- > number of men I've seen actually think about their anger
- > with her and why she writes what she writes still numbers
- > in the small single digits.
-
- Well theer it is, her methodology is ineffective in catalyzing change.
-
- I'm no stranger to the *If you can't beat 'em shock 'em* school,
- and it may surprize you that I count myself as one who has put
- some thought into why her material angers men. It may surprize you
- that I think that her material and POV has merit.
-
- > It's all too easy to dismiss
- > her as a man-hater; I'd like to see more people (men
- > especially) consider the "why" of it all.
-
- well, Melinda, she *is* a man hater.. Goddess knows sometimes *I*
- hate the bastards, and with good reason. For the life of me I don't know
- how strayt women put up with 'em either!
-
- And I also think I have gained some small understanding of why.
- I do try to do whatever I can to level the playing field.
-
- LUX ./. owen
-
- --
- D. Owen Rowley {uunet,fernwood,sun}!autodesk!owen
-
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