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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 21:39:07 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: M-I: PANIC LEFTIST: FRAME FOURTEEN

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PANIC LEFTIST: FRAME FOURTEEN

I.

Malecki wrote: “Can anybody give a reliable description of what this woman [Ebert] really stands for by the way?"

If there was any need for proof of the fascist anti-intellectual practices of Malecki, as usual, in his confusion he provides one here. Having ranted and raved about Ebert's book for two or three long posts, having advised people to tear the book apart and wipe their ass with it, now he asks someone to provide a “reliable” account of the book for him! Not only has he not read the very book that he already has condemned to ass-wiping, he CANNOT EVEN READ: he is begging someone to READ IT FOR HIM and give him a synopsis so that he can then use that summary to re-confirm his own views! By his own definition then, Malecki is a fascist: like them he does not read books....

HERE is a radical man ready to lead you into the future!

II.

Christi-Ann wrote: " . . . It's also indicative of sexism and objectification (if there is such a word), where people are not whole beings but collections of objects, just waiting to be used. It's easier to attack someone if you think of them as a group of genitalia than as an individual who is capable of intelligent, rational thought (no matter how much we might disagree on the contents of such thoughts).

On the flip side, I do admit that it was damn funny." Christi-Ann performs the usual liberal ritual of denouncing and distancing herself from the macho, the sexism, and the outright violence which has been unleashed upon us from the very beginning (all under the guise of “response") and then — in a double move — taking back all her objections by confirming all that she has questioned: “It is damn funny. . ." Funny indeed!

As far as women on this list are concerned: we are a collective of men and women, white and persons of color, “American” and non-American...it is symptomatic of the formulaic “readings” that take place on the list that unless names are tagged, people have no “clue”...

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