Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 20:42:52 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: M-TH: It's Euro/American Men Who Are Procreationists!


Mark:
>Yoshie is Japanese and there is a specific edge and rawness to ehr
>politics which reflects the contemporary encounter, which is in
>fact a bitter Lysistrata-like war, between Japanese women and
>Japanese men, who, on the whole, are the most backward men in the
>world when it comes ot their expectations of women. They are at
>least 50 years behind the average British or American male, which
>isn't saying much anyway. Therefore Japanese women have a hell of
>a fight on their hands. The very stridency of Yoshie's demands,
>the bitterness and determination with which she resolutely and
>uncompromisingly refuses to accept any argument which might gave
>aid and comfort to Japanese men in their disgusting and medieval
>attitude towards women, is entirely understandable and even
>poltiicaly correct. Unfortunately it is not theoretically correct,
>and that also explains why Yoshie's sexual poltiics is little more
>than literalised playacting, sybaritic fantasising, the main
>purpose of which is to reduce men to detumescence and to cut away
>any argument from the logic of materiality, of 'natural laws' etc,
>which might, as I say, support the egregious conservatism of
>Japanese men in particular and all men in general.

You are wrong. For all their faults (which are many), Japanese men aren't
procreationists like you, Hugh, Boddhi, Charles, etc.--who are all
_Western_ men--are. You guys are all trapped in the metaphysics in your
thinking on sexuality.

Yoshie




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