Warning: not about Pynchon

[Diana York Blaine]

Well Henry, in answer to your question, it certainly WOULDN'T hurt some
of these folks to take Women's Studies courses before spouting off
about what is wrong with feminism, how there is no conventional male
sexist view, and that Paglia is doing women some kind of favor. We women 
don't need Paglia to rescue us from what one of you called our supposed
Victorian victim obsession. This lie is part of the backlash against
erasing centuries of male privilege. But when a woman gets drunk at a
party and a group of men rapes her you better believe she's a VICTIM.
The very fact that a woman can post to this list blaming someone who gets
raped for getting raped reveals one male party line--accusing woman's
sexuality for male reaction to it is as old as the Sirens and Eve. If a
man leaves a party, drunk, and gets sodomized and beaten, are you going to
rush forward to say tsk tsk what did he expect?  His butt and wallet were
just right there, so tempting?  Sorry I didn't gloss "male party line" for
those of you spoiling for a fight. I was trying to be brief.  Please stop
sending me hate male (oops, mail. Paging Freud!). And speaking of victims,
why don't you stop blaming women and feminists and take some  
responsibility for your own hatred and sexism?  Or actually do some
studying on the subject?  (I'll happily suggest pertinent readings.) Now I
suppose I'll get a barrage of anti-edu. bluster.  Sorry if I continue to
think some education on a topic helps (tv sound bites don't really count
BTW.)  I guess I've just read too many "mindless" PhD theses (actually
they're generally called dissertations) full of too much intelligent
insight. -Diana (who isn't a victim because she won't let sexist bullies
of either gender silence her)