sex and the left

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 1:32 AM +1030 11/15/02, Catherine Driscoll wrote:
>  > At 10:17 AM -0400 10/24/02, Gordon Fitch wrote:
>>  >I don't see anything like the broad, totalitarian repression described
>>  above
>>
>>  A minority of left-wing men get a kick out of imagining that they are
>  > fighting a good fight against the forces of "broad, totalitarian
>  > repression" on LBO-talk.  It's a sexual perversion of sorts, and
>>  apparently a very pleasurable one too.  Who are we to punctuate their
>>  fantasy?  ;->
>
>god, i can't decide if this sounds like a fun perversion or not.

Personally, I prefer footnote fetish to flame fetish.  One thing that 
compensates for much of tedium on mailing lists, for me, is that I 
get to meet some improbably learned people -- especially those who 
don't publish their learning in print.

At 1:32 AM +1030 11/15/02, Catherine Driscoll wrote:
>do i have to be a boy?

Risking essentialism, I'd say yes.  However, there are much fewer 
women on left-wing mailing lists (except ones that are explicitly 
named feminist, which tend to have less traffic than male-dominated 
ones) than men, so my sample is too small for me to make a firm 
judgment about it.
-- 
Yoshie

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