[lbo-talk] Language of Contempt

Louis Kontos lkontos at mac.com
Sat Jun 3 17:49:18 PDT 2006


well, okay. as long as you're not stereotyping or copping out of debate, i guess it's good whatever you're doing. Louis

On Jun 3, 2006, at 2:26 PM, info at pulpculture.org wrote:


> I'll be sure to add you to my list of Marxist men. I missed you in
> my count!
>
>
> 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
>>
>>
>> On Jun 3, 2006, at 1:16 PM, info at pulpculture.org wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> http://www.marxmail.org/threads.html#12011
>>>
>>> I don't think that link is permanent, so it may not be the thread
>>> in question in a few days.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Dennis Perrin, redstateson.blogspot.com
>>>
>>>
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>
> "Scream-of-consciousness prose, peppered with
> sociological observations, political ruminations, and
> in-yore-face colloquial assaults."
>
> -- Dennis Perrin, redstateson.blogspot.com
>
>
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