Re: Rape Education Story #60

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kate Orman) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sky King) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 
> > "All men are rapists and that's all they are" -- Marilyn French,
> > Author, "The Women's Room"
>  
> > "My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little
> > sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the
> > handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet
> > in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to
> > shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his
> > shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter." -- Marilyn French, in
> > "The Women's Room"
> 
> "The Women's Room" is a fictional novel. These comments are made by 
> fictional characters severely damaged by their experiences of rape 
> and injustice. To attribute them to French herself is extremely 
> misleading and unfair. Read the novel to discover a variety of
> feminist viewpoints, and even a heroic male character who saves a
> woman from
> rape.
> 
> Yours,
> - Kate Orman

"The quote above is from a novel by Marilyn French. Feminists often
say "it is only a quote from a fictional character. Yet this notion is
seen throughout feminist so called scholarship."

http://www.fragmentsweb.org/stuff/10french.html
In undermining the very premises our society is built upon, no
patriarchal institutions are spared: capitalism, religion, law,
education, medicine, the family, media, government, corporations. Read
this book if you can find it, and prepare to have your most cherished
beliefs challenged. And if you are a male, prepare to be offended.