Thank you for the kind -- and quite funny -- response.
Sometimes I do have a way of mixing up my adversaries!!! LOL
After I posted that last response, I suddenly realized that I had mistakenly quoted the wrong person for mispelling. (Unfortunately, I'm on a public access computer, and I'm limited to an hour a day; so I wasn't able to correct my mistake until today.) It was indeed Carol Cox, not Chip Berlet, whose name I mispelled, and I humbly apologize for that. (And it was still nothing more than an accidental slip up, Carol; nothing more. I do beg your forgiveness.) If I'm gonna be a part of this list, I guess I should at least get the players' names right. :-)
As for the "Anti-Sex Left" comment: I wasn't trying to group anyone into any particular category; I was simply ttrying to quote a particular person whose views on sexuality IMHO comes remarkably close to the typical "anti-sex" position. I probably should have made myself more clear then; I plead no contest on account of being new to this list.
Anyways....thanks for the kind thoughts; and I promise you that I'll be a bit more careful and respectful of my worthy fellow posters.
:-)
Anthony Kennerson
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On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 18:21:03
Gitchee Gumee wrote:
>Anthony . . .
>
>I've followed, with considerable interest, and have enjoyed (for the
>most part), the discussion you've initiated on the LBO list, "Toward a
>more sex-positive -- And More Relevant -- Left." I've appreciated your
>efforts very much, and would like to thank you for them.
>
>I'm one of several hundred, I'm guessing, who subscribe to the LBO list
>(as I have for the past two or three years), but who, for whatever
>reason(s), have chosen to relate to it in a "passive" manner, i.e., by
>subscribing to the list, yet who just follow the various threads, which
>may be of personal interest, without getting actively involved, in the
>"active" sense, as you have, by the "act" of posting.
>
>I writing you, off-list, to point out to you, that you've evidently
>mis-understood, or were perhaps confused as to whose name it was, that
>you'd inadvertently, unintentionally, and "typographically," misspelled.
>
>Earlier today, at 9:51 (EST), you wrote: "First of all, Mr. Berlet:
>The misspelling of your name was nothing more than a typographical
>error, nothing more."
>
>In fact, Anthony, it wasn't "Chip" Berlet, whose name you'd misspelled;
>it was Carrol Cox, whose first name you'd inadvertently, unintentionally
>and "typographically," misspelled, as "Carole."
>
>Her spelling of it, with thanks, presumably, to her parents, is
>actually, unusual. Others have, presumably, misspelled her name, as
>either, "Carol," which (I would think) is the way her name has been most
>often misspelled, since "Carol" is the way that women so named most
>commonly spell it, correctly - or, as "Caroll" (as in Caroll O'Connor,
>the male actor who played "Archie Bunker"). Other common spellings, of
>course, would include, "Carolyn," and "Caroline."
>
>You wrote, two days ago, on Thursday morning, the 17th, at 10 am (EDT),
>in the second paragraph, as follows:
>
>"To Carole and Gordon: Let me clarify myself here . . . "
>
>In the third paragraph of the same post, you wrote:
>
>"As for Carole's notion that the "anti-sex left" is only a figment . . .
>"
>
>In the fourth paragraph, of the same post, you wrote:
>
>"And to Carole's blast about "Bleacher Bums . . . "
>
>Carrol (not "Carole") then, subsequently, wrote yesterday, at 10:46 am:
>
>"Perhaps misspellings of my name are less innocent than I usually take
>them to be. If Chip is correct, then Kennerson's spelling of my name,
>like his reading of Counterpunch, exhibits a tendency . . ."
>
>"Anthony's other misreading of my post stems not (at least not
>necessarily) from misreading[,] but from the fact that he is new to the
>list[,] and not familiar with my continual campaign against a
>reification of "The Left."
>
>In other words, her reply was to the question of whether there's really
>any such, organized "entity," as "the Left," which, if not, she implies,
>then how could there by such an organized "entity," as the "Anti-Sex
>Left."
>
>Following a playful and humorous exchange between Carrol and Doug, over
>Carrol's misspelling the name of Doug's wife, as "Lisa" (with an "s")
>instead of "Liza" (with a "z"), and, in which Doug replied (to Carrol),
>that it's . . . "Liza, actually. You do go ballistic when someone
>misspells your name, as I recall," then Carrol replied (to Doug)
>yesterday afternoon, the 18th, at 3 :44 pm (EDT), that:
>
>"No. I've never gone close to ballistic. I usually don't even mention
>it, and (except for today) when I do mention it[,] I do so
>apologetically, often with the buffering comment that probably my
>grandmother didn't know how to spell when she named my father."
>
>"I didn't mention the misspelling in my first response to Anthony. I
>mentioned it in the second because the issue there was accurate
>reading"; and,
>
>"At least two people have been misspelling my name for about 5 years on
>these lists and I've never complained. . . Anthony's "Carole" suggests
>that it might be a gender error in that instance."
>
>As for "Chip" Berlet, this is actually his nickname, and clearly
>intended, as one he devised, for the purpose of concealing from people,
>presumably out of shame and embarrassment, that his parents had actually
>named him, to reflect their adulation for Pres. Eisenhower's notorious
>Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, the younger brother of Allen,
>Eisenhower's even more notorious CIA director.
>
>All this would be of relatively no import to me, were it not for the
>fact that I so utterly despise him, and just about everything he's had
>to say or write, on just about every "topic."
>
>"Chip" Berlet, whose nickname you certainly did not misspell, is
>actually a cover, by means of which, he's chosen to conceal the fact
>that he's really named, "John Foster Berlet."
>
>Were you to "apologize" for misspelling their names, by acknowledging
>that, in the first place, what you'd inadvertently misspelled as
>"Carole," you now realize is actually (in her case) spelled "Carrol";
>and that, in "Chip's" case, you'd (again, most inadvertently),
>misspelled as "Chip," what is really spelled, "John Foster," you might
>elicit a most interesting (and stimulating) set of results.
>
>(My evidence for this, in case you're wondering, is very simply that, in
>my possession is a xerox copy of his Mass. state driver's license, which
>makes it quite abundantly clear.)
>
>Other background on him, is available, upon your request (e.g., a nice
>tract that was penned some years ago, entitled "Berlet for Beginners,"
>by a now, sadly deceased radical out in Portland, Ore., by the name of
>"Ace" Hayes).
>
>Bye for now,
>
>your friend and, yours truly,
>
>from the "shores of... Gitchee Gumee"
>
>(the greatest of the Great Lakes),
>
><gitcheegumee at earthlink.net>
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