> > >kelley at pulpculture.org wrote:
>> >
>> >>what a bunch of lame lazy asses. as usual, y'all sit around bitching
>> >>about the quote.
>
>Even in context, it's still a stupid metaphor, at several levels.
>As it applies to capitalism, "the master's tools" is a much wider
>set of things than just propaganda about race and gender and class.
>As it applies to slavery, the metaphor is simply wrong. The
>master's tools are the best and only way of leveling his house.
>It's a failed attempt at poetic rabble-rousing. This gun shoots
>backwards. The master's lies hold us down, but he's got some tools
>and a house that we want to take over and turn toward better
>purposes.
So, you want to use the phrase "the master's tools" to mean a different set of problems than what Audre Lorde addressed in her essay "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference." Does that mean that Lorde's metaphor is "simply wrong"? That's a very odd response. Surely, you can use the phrase to mean whatever you want it to mean, but that doesn't make her different use of it "wrong," does it? -- Yoshie
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