File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1999/baudrillard.9908, message 48


From: CathB2-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:22:55 EDT
Subject: Digression: Near rape experiences; the Gulf War Never Took Place 


C'mon, guys.  The Frontline site is incredibly Baud.

Lead sentence..Major Jane begins her story with the part where the Iraquis 
figure out she's a girl...Click here.

Of course, only people with reptilian mid cortical brain structure would 
click there.

But, assuming you're one, what you find is even better than the and then and 
then stuff you're expecting.  I'm proud to be an American...God bless the USA!

Major Anna reminds me of those statues of Soviet tractor farm youth--intrepid 
faces pointing up to the brighter day at hand if the workers of the world 
would just do it.  I mean it makes your heart swell with pride to see how 
today's young WACS and WAVES fear nada.

There are definitely two ways to read this.  1)Major Anna and the Joint 
Chiefs are putting the faintest spin on this information so that ladies may 
continue to serve their country without the viewing public feeling the 
faintest bit queasy.  2) Rape is really a patriarchal fantasy; Major Anna, 
just as millions of gals through history, is no dope.  This guy could kill 
me; if all he wants is some action, I'll just point out rule #416A , Red 
Cross and Geneva Convention, about safe rape. 

I've started Seduction; sounds like I'm corroborating.  I'm not at all sure 
about that. I've lived through the patriarchal routine, and the chivalry 
stuff that troubadours sing is the exception not the rule.  Maybe it's time 
that women realized the value of diamonds and small dogs and MasterCard, Inc. 
Simulcras do it better.

Catherine Brown

Catherine

   

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