At 08:04 PM 6/3/2006, Louis Kontos wrote:
>I think the objection was hogwash, and I am neither anti- feminist
>nor anti- any other good thing. The post from 'Louise' was in
>response to a single word in response to a post that she agreed with
>(apparently, in that she hasn't taken issue with a single other word,
>phrase, or sentiment in that post -- nothing). Then Carrol and a few
>others respond to her post by voicing support, and a few others
>respond by taking issue with language-cencorship while admitting that
>they should be more self-reflective. Only one post that I read
>claimed the right to use the term 'whore' without regard to whatever
>offense anybody -- 'commrades' -- took to it. From this exchange
>you've found proof of a 'great hostility' among 'Marxist men' to
>'feminism'. Seriously?
>Louis
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>On Jun 3, 2006, at 1:16 PM, info at pulpculture.org wrote:
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>>Jesus! I just read the thread at Marxism-L when Louise Walker
>>objected to the use of "whore" in the subject line of a post, an
>>argument which prompted Carrol's post sent (by mistake) to this list.
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>>I was just having an argument with Ulster, who's a big Marxist from
>>France, about the degree to which Marxist men still express a great
>>deal of hostility to feminism. And there it is for everyone to see:
>>about half the respondents think her objection was hogwash, resent
>>feminism, see it as bourgeois bullshit, etc. Were it not for
>>Carrol, Lou, Les Schafer, and a few others, you'd think it was
>>still 1967 on that list.
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>>http://www.marxmail.org/threads.html#12011
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>>I don't think that link is permanent, so it may not be the thread
>>in question in a few days.
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>>-- Dennis Perrin, redstateson.blogspot.com
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