Pope 'n' chaucer

Michael Ferro mferro at seanet.com
Thu Mar 25 21:51:23 PST 1999


Greg Nowell said:

"Because how could one ever tell, given that most of what men write about men is crap and most of what women write about women is crap, too. It follows that there will never be a shortage of bad writing by men about women and by women about men. But to make generalizations about men generally which does not start, as it ought, with the agreed condition that most writing by both sexes will rarely rise above the imbecilic is to miss the point utterly, for imbecility is the only generalization with which we are safe..."

Well put, Greg. In fact, bravo. I couldn't agree with you more and thank you for clearing the air a bit.

Mike Ferro



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