From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox)
Subject: Re: M-FEM: Do lesbians use...Tracy and "Liberalism"
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 10:59:26 -0500 (CDT)


Tracy,

	It has been 20 years or so since I read it or made any
use of it, but Mao has an interesting article entitled "Combat
Liberalism." By "liberalism" he is talking about the ways in
which comrades relate to each other, their willingness or un-
willingness to be open in their criticism and self-criticism.

	I think you should realize that your presence has 
created a wave of liberalism on this list. That is, your
self-identification as a prostitute, far from provoking
attacks has guarded you against the sort of attacks that
your political positions would generate were people not
fearful of seeming to have a moralistic/puritanical response
to your trade. They handle you more gently than they would 
a petty producer in some other and more conventionally
respectable line of work.

	Incidentally, for everyone's amusement, have others
notice how when the subject is sexual activity (commercial or
otherwise) all sorts of buried or dead metaphors tend to
leap to life.

Carrol