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- Subject: Re: Hearing dragons
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.001438.2165@msus1.msus.edu>
- From: y00025@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (Kristy Olson)
- Date: 23 Jan 93 00:14:38 -0600
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- In article <A78576CDA202501C@morbius.dartmouth.edu>, takkyon@morbius.dartmouth.edu (Dr. Tachyon) writes:
- >In article [snip] Mezo, venkman@lamar.ColoState.EDU writes:
- >> Yeah, Annes rampant feminism bugs me too.
- >
- >Ah, clearly Lessa sweeping out the fireplaces in Ruatha Hold is a prime
- >example of the empowerment of those of the feminine persuasion. Quite
- >naturally, the fact that Fax keeps I don't know how many ladies around
- >his quarters is, in reality, a bitingly ironic comment by Anne designed
- >to throw Fax into sharp contrast with the rest of Pern, an effect
- >heightened by the fact that F'lar treats the whole business as if doing
- >so was a COMPLETELY NORMAL OCCURANCE! They are, of course, in reality
- >all there of their own free will, and are, in fact, keeping Fax around
- >only as a male figurehead for their own nefarious purposes of global
- >conquest and world economic domination! Such radical, visionary
- >feminism, how daringly imagined and yet so subtly presented as to have
- >escaped the notice of every other reader of McCaffrey's work on the face
- >of the planet! Accept the eternal, unwavering gratitude of my unworthy
- >self for having opened my eyes to the truth behind Anne's words! Such
- >knowledge was not destined for a lowly one such as myself, but thanks to
- >your wisdom I see all clearly.
- >
- >> @set me=flame_proof.....
- >
- >Aiieeeee! Nay, say it is not so! Surely none shall dare to flame the
- >possesor of the mighty FLAME_PROOF flag, however ignorant of the One True
- >Nature of the Word of Anne or led astray by foolishly modern notions of
- >women's place in society they may be. So sing hallelujah, brothers and
- >sisters!
- >
- >> I get tired of all the B*llsh*t about women being more empathic, dealing
- >> better with people etc. Frankly its a fallacy, they have a
- >predisposition
- >> but that comes from how they were raised, not from their sex.
- >
- >Exactly! What perfection! What coherent, logically argued, rigorously
- >proven proof! And such a consistent, easily portable argument, too --
- >now, yes, finally, at long last, I can easily and coherently argue that
- >my own predisposition for fatherhood has NOTHING TO DO with my sex, but
- >is instead entirely grounded in my upbringing. At last the reason Carl
- >Lewis could beat Florence Griffith Joyner in the 100 meters with the
- >Dallas Cowboys defensive line tied to his back become clear -- clearly,
- >oh, with crystalline lucidity I see now that it is all due to his
- >upbringing as a boy, encouraged to play sports, and is absolutely, nay,
- >UNARGUABLY beyond the influence of such trivial factors as his sex. I am
- >ashamed, yes, MORTIFIED to be even seen as responding to a post of such
- >obvious good sense, for fear I may be seen as the LOWLIFE RADICAL
- >NEO-FASCIST PINKO-COMMIE FEMINIST SCUM I truly am!
- >
- >> Anyway, if women want to claim the 'ggod' things as related to sex,
- >they better
- >> damn well accept all the bad things.
- >
- >OH, BLESS ME, BROTHER, FOR I HAVE SINNED! I have sinned in my heart and
- >committed the unimaginable crime of thinking it appropriate for women to
- >claim any area of superiority over men! And I have compounded this sin
- >by allowing them to say so in a public forum without immediately offering
- >a gratuitous denigration of their sex for the amusement of the crowd!
- >Oh, save me, Brother, come and save my soul before I burn in that
- >unimaginably horrid feminist hell reserved for those who think it's OK
- >for women to say "We're better at this!"
- >
- >> Just my bit to get flamed for awhile. =) I miss it.
- >
- >Consider yourself chastened.
- >
- >> Th'ron.
- >
- > -- dr. "repent, for the END OF FEMINISM is at hand, brother" t
- > loyal worshipper, church of rhodesia
- >
- >--
- >email: takkyon@{turing,morbius,winesap}.dartmouth.edu
- >Disclaimer: I surely don't speak for the wizards of PernMUSH.
- >"No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder
- >blades will seriously cramp his style." -- vlad taltos
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