Fwd: Re: Katha Pollitt on Andrew Sullivan

[Charles Brown]

>>> mmcintyr at wppost.depaul.edu 06/01/01 10:53AM >>>
Sullivan is a pig because of his political views, not because of his "ravenous glutes." 

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CB: Would seem that Katha is saying he is specifically , also a sexist pig.


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 And if hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, then Sullivan is the inverse of a hypocrite.  I'm glad his pinched, tory "virtue" doesn't go all the way down.  I hope he finds hordes of HIV+ men with whom to bareback, until he decides that his flimsy pretense of virtue is no longer worth the candle.

BTW, I enjoyed the gossip and confess to the venial sin of Schadenfreude.  But gossip isn't fun anymore once you have to find good "moral" justifications for it.

Michael McIntyre

>>> CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us 06/01/01 09:31AM >>>

>>> dhenwood at panix.com 06/01/01 10:08AM >>>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:33:19 -0700
From: Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com>

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    andrew's hypocrisy makes his anti-choice views particularly self-serving
and lacking in empathy.  Gay men, it would seem, get to have multiple
partners, anonymous partners, in whatever numbers or combinations they like,
with no strings or inconvenience attached (like having to go out on two
whole dates with someone who might reject you! Oh no!). Having spent a
lifetime attacking it, Andrew now defends his right to live in the world of
no consequences sex. fine--I'm not quarrelling with his sexual choices. But
he would not let women have that kind of a no-=strings, no-consequences sex
life: the Cath church he supports denies them contraception and emergency
contraception, and even sterilization;he himself would make abortion a
crime, with all that implies in the legal policing of female sexuality. So
men, at least gay men, get to do whatever the heck they want, and women, at
least women who have sex with men, must tread the narrow path or be punished
with pregnancy and childbirth. Boys have all the fun--and for andrew, that's
as it should be.

Katha

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CB: I kinda agree with Katha.