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- From: mtaranto@panix.com (Mark Taranto)
- Subject: Re: *Any* kind of r.a.b split, or at least a *serious* discussion
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.163116.22655@panix.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 16:31:16 GMT
- Organization: The Inner Clique
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- wwhitman@nevada.edu (MICHAEL WISE) writes:
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- > I am not above trading insults with Heather; I just don't think it will
- > go anywhere. She has been villified, and accordingly she has become a
- > martyr, a martyr for a cause that Mark (if he were not so sadly embroiled
- > in and so tired of it) would have written a finer parody of than the MERRY
- > SPINSTERS OF R.A.B could ever hope to be.
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- I could not write a parody unless I thought those involved could laugh
- at themselves. Heather has shown that she cannot.
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- > I did not intend to offend her with my reply to her post on Gertrude
- > Stein's AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
-
- After watching Heather for a while, I've come to the conclusion that she
- is not really offended by what she claims to be offensive. Think about
- it. She complains that Barbara Hlavin dismisses Paglia with an opinion,
- and without giving her reasons. Yet, a week later she does the same thing
- to Norman Mailer. She complains that others are snotty, yet out-snots them.
- She complains that Tom told her to fuck off and die when she offends him,
- yet tells Michael Wise to shove it up his ass when he offends her. And
- finally, she is offended when Stein is called a fat, lazy lesbian, but
- thinks it perfectly acceptable to call Norman Mailer a dick-waving fathead.
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- But she is offended by something -- by what? Only Heather can really tell us.
- It appears that she is offended when people disagree with her.
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- Michael says that I am embroiled in this. At this point, I have two feelings.
- There is amusement by the massive set of contradictions in the way that
- Heather presents herself. But there is also concern for Heather, because
- she appears to exhibit a lot of misplaced anger.
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- Mark
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