>I disagree that PEN-l and Marxism show no interest in the topic of
>sexuality. To take just a couple of examples, when I posted on
>transsexuals in Iran, Egypt, etc., I received a response on PEN-l
>(from Mohammad Maljoo, an Iranian man)
><http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/2004w31/msg00123.htm>
>but not from LBO-talk and Marxism. A posting about Pim Fortuyn and
>Peter Tatchell received a number of responses from Marxism and one
>from PEN-l but none from LBO-talk:
><http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/2004w23/msg00030.htm>,
><http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2004w23/msg00100.htm>,
>and
><http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2004w23/thread.htm#00094>.
Hmm, two counterexamples elsewhere vs., oh, several hundred here? C'mon.
>I'd think that just the fact that the essay in question was written
>by a young Afghan lesbian made it unusual, the first time such a
>topic was brought up on this list (and Marxism and PEN-l, for that
>matter), unlike Mel Gibson and Viagra! I highly doubt that anyone
>has been deluged by an outpouring of Afghan lesbian literary outputs
>outside the listservs.
Uh, no. I'm all for hearing from Afghan lesbians, and I can't imagine why you'd think otherwise.
Doug