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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 12:15:53 -0800
From: Diane Davis <dddavis-AT-infi.net>
Subject: Re: superWOman was here


This amused lurker would just like to send a resounding DITTO to Eric's
"counter-quibble."  Exactly.

DDD
Department of English
Old Dominion University
dddavis-AT-infi.net

===============Erik D Lindberg wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Dec 1995, COMIN TO YOU DIRECTLY FROM THE MOTHER SHIP wrote:
> 
> > I state categorically: the patriarchy is a myth, there is no
> > societally imposed 'system to oppress women,' I there are no
> > evil patriarchs meeting in cemetaries in Prague or anywhere else
> > for that matter.  The world does not revolve around you and your
> > particular problems.
> >
> I think the quibbling is lame, but this counter-quibble does not add
> much.  From a Nietzschean standpoint, for instance, categorical
> statements are to be viewed with great suspicion.
> 
> And as for what you happen to state categorically, you do not seem too
> acquainted with the arguments that discuss the oppression of women (and
> others).  Although the arguments are multifarious, most share the view
> that power is NOT wielded by some sort of conspiracy or
> secret organized structure, and is thus all the more insidious.  Your
> response is the sort I get from Freshman Composition students who resist
> admitting that their can be forms of coersion and manipulation--in short
> ideology--that are not overt and institutionalized by recognizable
> organizations of legitimacy.  Look at a billboard, watch TV, drink a
> Coors, listen in on a conversation between two couples, recall who went
> out into the world and did "heroic" things and who had to stay home and
> wipe your snotty nose (as well as all the other unrecognized work of
> raising children) in your family and those around you, and you MAY catch
> on to some of the subtle (or not so subtle) mechanisms, symbolic codes,
> and conventions employed by your mythological patriarchy.
> 
> >
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> >
> 
> Erik D. Lindberg
> Dept. of English and Comparative Lit.
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> Milwaukee, WI  53211
> email: edl-AT-csd.uwm.edu
> 
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