Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 10:20:13 -0400
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re: M-FEM: Re:  gendered division of theoretical labor


Kylie writes;

>I agree with what Martha says about the issue of including in the list, but
>having briefly read the posting men have made over the past few days - and
>even today - I can't help but wonder.
>
>There is nothing that pisses me off more than being told that I am female
>therefore I must or I will..... And by the same token ideas that try to
>focus on the differences between male and female, so I really don't want to
>have to conclude that people act in a certain way because of their gender,
>but to be quite honest, Hugh's original posting, the various attacks on
>Linda, Robert Malecki's little tantrum, and the recent note from 'farmer'
>all indicate that there is a difference between these particular men, and
>the women on the list.

Yes they is a difference. But could you be a little more specific?
>
>Yoshie is correct - why was Linda attacked?  Why not Hugh?
>
>As for Freud  - Freud was a coward who new that sexual child abuse and
>incest were occurring and backed down when he discovered that some of the
>perpertrators were 'well-respected' members of 'society', and he felt that
>exposing it would effectively destroy his career.  Hence developing his
>bizarre and destructive 'complexes' and the subsequent penis envy.  No Marx
>was not a feminist - but Freud was a misogynist.

Is this true? Or some feminist ballbusting?

Glad your not my doctor! Naturally I belive in the privacy of a 
doctor-patient relationship after a proletarian revolution. Which includes 
privacy in the above matters which in many cases could be sexual fantasi..  
Naturally not connected to opening the books of the doctors and the private 
hospitals connected to free health care...

Warm regards
Bob Malecki