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]>...
> > [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


I posted that info to someone in t.r.  Do a search.