Jesse Lemisch
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dwayne Monroe" <idoru345 at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 4:50 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Ellen Willis dies
> Michael J. Smith wrote:
>
> This [what Jesse Lemisch describes as "male rage"] is
> a phrase I've heard used before, and I've always found
> it a little puzzling. Is the implication that rage is
> an exclusively male vice or prerogative -- that women
> don't rage? I have seen a counterexample or two, in my
> time. Or does it mean that male and female rage are
> different in kind, somehow? If so, how?
>
>
> ...............................
>
>
>
>
> Interesting question.
>
>
>
> Once upon a time, back when pants flared like rocket
> nozzles and television programs proudly boasted of
> being displayed "in color" earnest people talked about
> "Black rage".
>
> This seemed to make some sense, after all, there were
> ample opportunities to achieve a pissed-off state if
> you were Black and living in the troubled US but
> calling this 'Black Rage" implied that, like gravity,
> it was a force of some sort, a phenomena worthy of
> extensive study, important books and sincerely
> furrowed brows.
>
>
>
> I'm going to (angrily, in an XY chromosome sort of
> way) put down my sinister cup of tea and Google the
> phrase to see what turns up.
>
>
> Just a moment...
>
>
> Hmmm:
>
> <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=male+rage&btnG=Google+Search>
>
>
> Now here's something intriguing...an excerpt from an
> essay titled "This Frozen Male Rage Within Us All" by
> Ann Kreilkamp:
>
>
>
> <snip>
>
> I tell Terry what I am thinking. Tell her how I see
> that incident as symbolic of something much more
> insidious. That underneath, way down deep, William
> hates women! Tell her I see this not just in him, but
> in men generally. That this male rage against the
> female is all-pervasive, constituting the very texture
> of everyday life, only we don't know it, so busy are
> we females in unconsciously colluding with their
> unconscious hatred of us.
>
> [...]
>
>
> link (pdf) -
> http://www.celestialnavigations.net/openpdfs/MaleRage.pdf
>
>
> Well, this brings it into sharper focus - "male rage"
> is defined as a hatred of women, the primary object of
> the "rage".
>
>
>
> Of course, an immediate problem appears: precisely who
> gets to decide what's "male rage" and what's just
> plain old, situational en-pissedness? And like "Black
> rage" which, as I recall, was tossed around to dismiss
> any Black person who got hot under the collar about
> anything, isn't "male rage" liable to be cavalierly
> applied when it suits the cavalier?
>
>
>
> Oh well, back to evil.
>
>
>
>
>
> .d.
>
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk