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- From: twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin)
- Subject: Re: sex in the good ol' days
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.060006.11552@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- References: <1992Nov16.005319.5313@ils.nwu.edu> <1992Nov16.204644.23648@u.washington.edu> <1992Nov21.040242.18561@netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 06:00:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.040242.18561@netcom.com> sheaffer@netcom.com
- (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.204644.23648@u.washington.edu> twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin) writes:
- >>
- >>Oh, exactly ... it was very obviously meant to be satirical.
- >>
- >>What's *really* funny about it is Robert Sheaffer's utterly predictable
- >>response that it's a Politically Correct Feminist-Lesbian-Man-Hating
- >>CONSPIRACY!
- >
- > So, Barbara, do you believe that it was written in 1894??????
- >
-
- I doubt it. It was more likely written in 1896.
-
- Satire and parody aren't inventions of the 20th century. (See Mark
- Twain, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift.)
-
- My comment, Robert, was addressed to your hysterical response that it
- had to be recent writing because it was man-bashing! phallic-sex-hating!
- (while of course it was nothing of the sort), and that *therefore* it
- had to have been inspired by <shudder> those conspiratorial FEMINISTS.
-
- It was a piece of writing that was specifically making fun of conventional
- notions of Victorian sexual mores.
-
- By *making fun* -- a concept you appear to have trouble with -- it was
- making the point that it is ludicrous to characterize either women's
- attitudes or men's natures this way.
-
- It wasn't bashing anyone. Only a dummy would immediately leap to
- this conclusion.
-
-
- >--
- >Robert Sheafferr
- > Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics
-
- Kick you out for credulity, did they?
-