Re: Rape Education Story #60

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (DEDHeather94) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >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
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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.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> > 
> >> >>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
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> >>                        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.
> 
> 

Learn to set your line-length properly...

> 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.
> 

I eat weirder things than you for breakfast.

> Heather