Re: Rape Education Story #60

Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[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.
> 
> Yep, that's how literature works, as any college literature professor 
> can explain.
> 
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> > 
> >>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???
> 
> Her books show her beliefs.  That's how literature works.
> 
> Bob
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> >>                        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


He did not mean that. He meant that he was surprised to see a male heroic 
character in feminist writings.