<HTML><FONT SIZE=3 FAMILY="FIXED" FACE="Courier New" LANG="0">Doug writes:
<BR><< Two questions, Leo: 1) why can't women play this game too, and 2) what <BR>does this lurid scenario have to do with a sobersides like Nader? >>
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<BR>A few women do play the game, but -- like gang banging -- it remains every <BR>bit a characteristically male adolescent piece of "rebellion" even with that <BR>female presence. The Rolling Stones did not call the song "Street Fighting <BR>People" for good reason. We could discuss what it is that makes such cultural <BR>rituals so characteristically male adolescent, but the fact that they are so, <BR>is, I believe, quite clear.
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<BR>I am not sure the point has much of anything to do with Nader; it was a <BR>response to Chuck taking issue with what I had to say about Nader and Gore, <BR>in which he made the claim of being part of a real revolutionary movement <BR>that "kicks butt" as opposed to "liberals" who work for a Gore victory like <BR>myself.
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<BR>The left doesn't have sexual scandals of the everyday sort, because all of <BR>the things that are considered transgressive and make for scandal in the <BR>larger sexual culture are looked at rather benignly in these precincts. The <BR>only cause for scandal here would be acts of sexual harassment. I am also not <BR>sure what this says about Nader and Gore, who are two of the most vanilla, <BR>asexual personalities I can imagine. It is hard for me to even imagine Nader <BR>as a sexual being, quite frankly, which is what makes the attempt to create <BR>some sexual scandal around him about as preposterous a political exercise as <BR>making Bush into an intellect.
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FACE="P22 KellsRound" LANG="0">Leo Casey
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<BR>Power concedes nothing without a demand.
<BR>It never has, and it never will.
<BR>If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
<BR>Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who <BR>want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and <BR>lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
<BR><P ALIGN=CENTER>-- Frederick Douglass --</P></FONT></HTML>