Re: Rape Education Story #60

Ann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 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.

So you're saying that those thoughts are NOT Marilyns, but, in fact,
those of SOMEONE ELSE???

Thanks for asserting the original point which you disputed, dumbass.


> Whatever do we make of JK Rowling then?

I don't get into wacky wiccans, so I don't read that shit.


> 
> 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