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- From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine)
- Subject: Re: Feminism's Lesbian Leaders (was: Why are there only men on)
- References: <1992Dec19.162532.1921@netcom.com> <1992Dec19.173342.12140@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec19.173705.12384@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec28.190731.12467@netcom.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:55:56 GMT
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- sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec19.173705.12384@midway.uchicago.edu> mec6@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
- >>
- >>>Then there's Catharine MacKinnon, who we Americans foolishly
- >>>allowed to shove her version of "sexual harassment" regulations down
- >>>our throat. I'm not privy to the details of MacKinnon's private life,
- >>
- >>I'm pretty sure she's het.
-
- >This is the woman who (in her "Toward a Feminist Theory of the State")
- >calls heterosexuality "male supremacy's paradigm of sex" (p. 172).
- >Also (p. 178-9):
-
- > What is heterosexuality? If it is the erotization of dominance and
- > submission, altering the participants' gender does not eliminate
- > the sexual, or even gendered, content of aggression. If heterosexuality
- > is males over females, gender matters independently. Arguably,
- > heterosexuality is a fusion of the two, with gender a social outcome,
- > such that the acted upon is feminized, is the "girl" regardless of
- > sex, the actor correspondingly masculinized.
-
- >Obviously, "heterosexuality" to Ms. MacKinnon is *not* a Good Thing.
- >But Rini is pretty sure she's het.
- >
- >>
- >>>Morgan, the editor of "Ms.", the largest-circulation feminist
- >>>magazine. Again, I am not privy to the details of her sexual
- >>>life. However, she calls "the family" a "disease" ("Demon Lover",
- >>>p. 316), says the most horrendous things about men - they all
- >>>love death, etc. - and repeatedly praises lesbianism. So one
- >>>must infer from her own statements that she's a lesbian, as well.
- >>
- >>No, she's married to a guy.
-
- I am not particularly interested in praising these people.
-
- Let me just point out, for the sake of fairness, that people may have
- personal lives considerably at odds with their public political
- positions.
-
- Like Jimmy Swaggart, remember?
-