Gender language

[Craig Clark]

My fellow subject of the Kingdom of KwaZulu,  Hartwin Alfred 
Gebhardt <hag at iafrica.com>, writes:

> Looking at you people up north from down here, you know, not very 
> flattering - knobbly knees and such. And then all that painfully 
> constipated PASSION! Us REAL AFRICANS, despite occassionally SHOUTING 
> VERY LOUDLY!! are generally much more relaxed. Learn form us in the 
> spirit of Ubuntu!! reject the imperial-colonial misuse of the third 
> person plural!! And then, maybe, you'll all be MUCH HAPPIER!! In fact 
> IN FACT!! maybe YOU PEOPLE IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE SHOULD ALL JUST 
> SHUT UP!!! JUST FOR A WEEK, OR EIGHT DAYS MEBBE...

Psst! HAG! They're all off on Thanksgiving! This is our chance!What 
say you we take over this list and dedicate it henceforwards to 
discussing the "cultural work" ("poetry" is *such* a bourgeois and 
Eurocentric term, divorcing the cultural worker from the rest of the 
working class) of the Mayibuye Cultural Workers' Collective?

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"