Re: Rape Education Story #60

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sky King) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kate Orman) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

> > > "All men are rapists and that's all they are" -- Marilyn French,
> > > Author, "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.

> "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."

If that's true, then why not quote the scholars, instead of an 
imaginary person?

Having never encountered the belief that "all men are rapists and 
that's all they are" anywhere at all in feminist scholarship, I'd be 
keen to see your citations of the numerous feminists who hold this view.

Yours,
- Kate Orman