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- From: mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik)
- Subject: Re: Dworkin (was Re: Liberty)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.103824.968@panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 10:38:24 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.144024.28676@tc.cornell.edu> <1992Dec23.055209.27606@panix.com> <18229@autodesk.COM>
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- owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen Rowley) writes:
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- >Strayt white men won't give Andrea Dworkin the time of day, never mind an
- >oportunity to spread her bitter memes.
-
- I'm not sure whether Owen is spelling it that way to suggest a state
- of mind, but if it's meant as a simple translation of heterosexual,
- I can think of plenty of counterexamples.
-
- This isn't a spelling flame. I vary my spelling of "straight"
- in order to be suggestive, but I know that Owen doesn't usually
- focus on orthographic variants. I'm allowing for the fact that
- if I introduced him to the folks I'm thinking of, he might say
- that they're "straight but not strayt," or something similar.
-
- >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.
-
- Are you using "who don't put up with it" (meaning, I gather,
- Dworkin's attitudes) as a measure of the extent women center their
- self-worth withing themselves (etc.)? It sounds a little like it,
- and the paragraph struck me as a bit patronising on that account.
-
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- Mara Chibnik
- mara@panix.com Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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