Towards a More Sex-Positive -- And More Relevant -- Left

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 18 12:23:24 PDT 2002


Carrol Cox wrote:


>If I were to operate in describing the mid-sixties as Doug and Lisa

Liza, actually. You do go ballistic when someone misspells your name, as I recall.


>operate in describing "the left" as it now exists, I would describe the
>Civil Rights Movement as a bunch of seat-belt haters. That is, around
>1966 several members of SCLC were in town fund-raising. I drove them
>around town in my 1964 Plymouth, which had that newfangled device,
>seatbelts. They all laughed as I buckled up.

And I'm laughing now. You're really mastering this self-parody thing. I'm impressed.

Doug



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