File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1996/96-11-22.061, message 3


Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 11:45:50 -0500
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Re: M-I: sex-ism


At 12:32 AM 11/17/96, robert scheetz wrote:

>as you and young Schwartz, et al. purvey, that it has no bowell.
>
>Anyway, to be perfectly crude, I passionately loathe abortion; and thence its
>subtle partisans, etc....howsoever it marginalizes me. Dorothy Day and the
>Maryknolls are favorites....you may have noticed, theology of liberation is as
>far from the mind of (your favorite) Mother Proyect's syllabus as
>postmodernism.

What a bizarre and incoherent diatribe. It reeks of misogyny and a
primitive anal fixation (which gives new meaning to the author's surname).
The profession of adoration for D.D. & the Maryknolls isn't inconsistent,
because we know that nuns renounce their sexuality in a marriage to Christ
- and it seems that this celibate submission to male authority is exactly
what pleases our author. The use of "Mother" as an honorific for Lou P. is
curious; it's obviously intended as hostile, which is ironic coming after a
profession of adoration for certain women. The hatred of abortion, then,
can only be interpreted as a fear of female independence and autonomy.

Doug

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