[lbo-talk] Lesbo Goes to Muslim Bridal Shower

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Sun Oct 3 15:25:56 PDT 2004:
>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>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.

Many of them are about practically the same topic, though, like 
abortion, and they become lengthy threads when some here object to 
them (e.g., recent threads on S/M and recurring threads on abortion).


>  >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.

Why, then, did you ask why I posted the essay by an Afghan lesbian, 
when you haven't asked the same question about other postings that 
came without any head- or footnote.  I still don't understand what in 
your opinion makes stories about Mel Gibson and his praying fan, 
Viagra in China, the Lolita fashion subculture, etc. "self-evident" 
and an essay by an Afghan lesbian "non-self-evident."

Michael Dawson wrote:
>I say it again:  Yoshie fancies herself our enlightener.  She 
>actively seeks out topics on which she can advertise her own 
>radicalism.  She presumes that we think "Afghan lesbian" is some 
>unimaginable contradiction, that we all have our "Western" heads up 
>our "Western" butts.
>
>Yoshie is a didact, and thinks that's radical.

What makes you so obsessed with speculating about me and my opinion? 
Why do you assume that an essay by an Afghan lesbian has anything to 
do with you, when I posted the same essay to the two other listservs 
to which you are not subscribed and the posting said nothing about 
you?
-- 
Yoshie

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