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03-24-2004 12:18 PM ET (US)
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Q: What did Madonna's right leg say to her left? A: Nothing--they've never met. :):):)
OK, now for the serious stuff: As we were saying in class today, I think credibility should be the main goal of any author/artist, especially those who claim to espouse a certain "movement" or "theory." Even if at the beginning I had been predisposed to jump on Muscio's proverbial bandwagon, by now I'd be frantically signalling that wagon to STOP and let me off! I can not, will not, and never intend to voluntarily support hypocrisy, which is exactly what I would be doing now were I to be a strong supporter of this author's militant mindset. The best example of this is: here we have a radical feminist, who does nothing but chew up men and spit them out for a few hundred pages, yet who allowed herself to get pregnant not once but three times--and the last one, by her frank admission, happened when she no longer loved this man and they were indeed breaking up! Wow, what a send-off; my own disintegrated r'ships have never ended in such a way! Anyway, I'm sure everyone realizes that my point is NOT that a woman can not be both heterosexual and a feminist; I am merely observing that one of the very things this woman eschews--the ability of men to seduce/sexually exploit women--good Lordisa! WAKE UP!!! Except in the vile cases of rape, men don't contribute their share of procreation without a good deal of cooperation from women. Muscio's repeated use of her privilege of "choice" as a means of birth control is repugnant, and takes away some of the credibility of women who want to be Pro-Choice in a responsible way--not, as was said in class today, as a means of birth control. What Muscio needed to use was a little more self-CUNTrol, which she obviously doesn't have. And by the way--there is a certain amount of hypocrisy as well in calling upon a "Lordisa" while simultaneously making a sick mockery of other people's faith(s). Again, as I said today: whenever a group starts using backstabbing tactics such as these, whatever credibility that group may have earned is no longer served, and they place themselves in severe jeopardy of losing whatever respect they have gained.
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