Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 11:07:53 -0500
From: Scott & Sandi <vespass-AT-swbell.net>
Subject: ever notice...


I'm not getting involved in the love letters between Unka Bart and his 
secret admirer, this sentence caught my eye for a different reason.


> >you are a sexist piece of paternalistic shit.


Now this is just my opinion, and having been wrong many, many times before, 
it wouldn't surprise greatly if I was wrong again, BUT I think the first 
step towards any meaningful liberation is to drop the language of 
victimization.  NO one who has ever seriously used the word "paternalism" 
will ever be in a position to do a damn thing about it.  Nothing, nada, 
name calling doesn't count.  A LOT of people think each of us is an idiot, 
a fool, a childish idealist.  Get used to it, your tantrums won't change 
them, if anything they help the "oppressors" along, because words like 
paternalistic acknowledge a state of affairs that are out of your 
hands.  You're just a poor suffering victim, what can you do against the 
big, bad, paternalistic daddy's?  And that's how they like it, you just 
wait and complain until they decide to be good; or slightly less to their 
individual benefit, but staying true to their world view, you could rebel 
and try to force them to be good.  Either way, you still lose in the long 
run by accepting their principles of force and coercion.

Rant off.

cheers,
scott

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