Re: Rape Education Story #60

>Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Magic Nose Goblin wrote:
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kate Orman) wrote in message
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>> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sky King) wrote in message
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>> >>>"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.


He?  He who, genius?  How many men do you know named Kate?  D'oh!  Did it again
didn't you?  Well now that you know it wasn't a MAN who said it (Blob, I assume
is who you thought) I'm sure you'll have an entirely different spin on what SHE
said and be just as offended as the goblin thing.

Heather