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 -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <dhenwood-AT-panix.com> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html> --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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