Re: Rape Education Story #60

On 28 Nov 2003 21:44:06 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Magic Nose
Goblin) wrote:

>[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
>
>i.e. they are an expression of MARILYN FRENCH's thoughts.

It's a scary thought that you believe that an author can only give the
characters in the novel her own thoughts and views.  Whatever do we
make of JK Rowling then?

Ann

>
>> severely damaged by their experiences of rape 
>> and injustice. To attribute them to French herself is extremely 
>> misleading and unfair.
>
>Are you claiming that Marilyn French did not come up with those lines
>all by herself...that SOMEONE else said those things to her???
>
>
>>                         Read the novel to discover a variety of
>> feminist viewpoints, and even a heroic male character who saves a
>> woman from rape.
>
>You say *even* as if that is somehow out of the norm for male behavior....
>
>
>> 
>> Yours,
>> - Kate Orman