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- From: mysti@sybase.com (Mysti)
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- Subject: Re: What do you Am men think about Am women?
- Message-ID: <25766@sybase.sybase.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 20:15:19 GMT
- References: <riaedwards.1.720489492@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Nov1.040135.15689@netcom.com> <1992Nov4.044025.19483@nevada.edu> <1992Nov6.210652.712@netcom.com> <MARTINC.92Nov8150437@grover.cs.unc.edu>
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- In article <MARTINC.92Nov8150437@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov6.210652.712@netcom.com> sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
- >
- > Well, check out the content of the virtually all-female form of (usually)
- > soft-core pornography known as "Romance Novels": written for women,
- > by women. My understanding is that these books DO typically show 'women
- > in danger' being "rescued" by men. If correct, this tells us that
- > "men rescuing women" is NOT "female-bashing", but rather a kind of
- > fantasy shared both by women and men. Hence, the "rescue fantasy" is
- > probably very deeply grounded in both male AND female psychology. If
- > this is upsetting to YOU, of course you're free to tell any male who
- > attempts to rescue you to go piss off! :)
- >
- >"So what did the princess do after the knight resuced her?"
- >"She rescued him right back."
-
- Important point #1: what is the most frequently occurring gender of the
- people who control film studios and publishing houses?
-
- Important point #2: In writing seminars, I have frequently been told that
- men often write these stories and pseudonymify with women's names.
-
- Important point #3: Women act in porn films, this does not mean that violence
- in pornography is a "fantasy shared by women and men". Likewise, because women
- sell (what men are purchasing for publication for sale to women) these stories
- does not mean that they share the fantasy. If they did, they'd be lolling about
- waiting for someone to rescue them, eh?
-
- Important point #4: There's nothing wrong with having a fantasy about
- someone rescuing you. The problem is that all too often women (and men)
- come to believe that this is their only option.
- And they may not be too far wrong if the statistics which say that 40
- percent of homeless people are women escaping violent partners, is true.
-
- We don't take these things seriously because we are humorless castrating
- femanazi dykes, but because their consequences can be measured in human
- suffering and pain, on both sides of the gender line.
-
- Thanks,
-
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- Mysti Rubert, Oaktown, California
-
- "It't not the men in my life, but the life in my men." Mae West
-