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- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!nntp.Stanford.EDU!farthing
- From: farthing@leland.Stanford.EDU (ljf)
- Subject: Re: Verbs and gender connotations
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.033518.23262@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <MUFFY.93Jan20192740@remarque.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan21.094417.15750@leland.Stanford.EDU> <3205@tymix.Tymnet.COM>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 03:35:18 GMT
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- In article <3205@tymix.Tymnet.COM> baba@Tymnet.com (Duane Hentrich) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.094417.15750@leland.Stanford.EDU>, farthing@leland.Stanford.EDU (ljf) writes:
- >|> Women don't even need toys to fuck men. They can use their fingers
- >|> and/or hands. Or the legal system. (Figured I'd throw that in for
- >|> the anti-feminists in the newsgroup.)
- >
- >Indeed.
- >
- >I maintain, however, that the cultural connotation to the active verb
- >"to fuck" is masculine.
-
- I'm not sure it is cultural. Although for once, you and Dworkin agree
- on something, since she seems to think it is too.
-
- I hear hetero men and women both talk about fucking and getting fucked
- (sexually).
-
- If a man is lying on his back, with his arms and legs tied, and is
- engaged in vaginal intercourse with a female partner, is he fucking or
- being fucked? Or both? Or neither?
-
- >Isn't that why women lawyers also wear suits (& ties). Active fucking
- >is a masculine trait, just like the courtroom uniform.
-
- I thought it was the assumption that, if women want to be taken
- seriously in male-dominated professions, they need to resemble men as
- much as possible.
-
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