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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 12:01:36 +1200
From: john.morss-AT-stonebow.otago.ac.nz (John Morss)
Subject: Re: becoming-man


 >On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Bryan Alexander wrote:
>
>> I introduced D+G to a group of friends, a few years ago......
>>Some of them were really annoyed at some of the language
>> in ATP: "becoming-woman" needed extensive background+Braidotti, and even
>> then remained crawstuck without "becoming-man";

this sounds like swallowing the poison and the antidote at the same time.
'becoming-man' makes a nonsense of 'becoming-woman' doesn't it? (it's like:
every time you attack 'patriarchy' you should attack 'matriarchy' as well
to keep things balanced)...

>>the war machine repulsed
>> our committed pacifists.

ditto. is anything more dangerous than naivety? (I don't mean pacifism is
necessarily naive, but that kind of reaction to d+g seems naive to me)..

>>       I was struck by the weird tension between this offended reading...

and yet 'offended reading' seems a highly appropriate response to d+g....

btw; what does 'outdated' mean (in the previous posts)??

fwiw
JRM


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