File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1997/marxism-thaxis.9712, message 320


Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:47:25 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: M-FEM: All Work and No Play? No Way!


I'm probably the only one who has gone through and read the LM archives
extensively. (That is one of the reasons I am always in high dudgeon over
this cult.) Jurriann's rant doesn't surprise me all that much after some of
the crap that I've seen out there. One article, in particular, argues that
post-rape trauma has been exaggerated. Which is too bad because it
supposedly encourages a "victim" mentality. The article, in typical LM
fashion, cites a woman who has made a plucky recovery and asks why can't
more women act that way. The reliance on this sort of anecdotal evidence is
typical of Reagan era discourse, which they are trying to revive with a
vengeance. What is LM really? 1980s nostalgia buffs.

Louis Proyect


At 11:40 PM 12/9/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>This post defies comment. I'm rarely speechless, but JB has managed to
>flabbergast me. His response strikes me as simply insane. Maybe Yoshie or
>Doug or someone else can think of something appropriate to say. --jks  
>
>On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, jurriaan bendien wrote:
>
>> 
>> Justin objects when I say 
>> 
>> > "However to > me you claiming to be a feminist is just plain silly to me,
>> > an admission of your personal inadequacy as a man."
>> 
>> Justin argues this is evocative of
>> 
>>  deep "insecurity",  suggests I am calling him a "gender traitor", and
>> proceeds to amalgamate me with those who call white supporters of Black
>> equality as "nigger lovers" who want to allow big Black bucks to ravish
>> their sisters and daughters. 




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