Pynchon fans/good

[Henry M]

Oooo. Says so in the charter. Since when do you believe everythin 
that you read, Dave?

On 31 Oct 96 at 11:54, davemarc wrote:

> Date:          Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:54:11 -0500 (EST)
> To:            <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> From:          davemarc <davemarc at panix.com>
> Subject:       Re: Pynchon fans/good

> At 09:51 AM 10/31/96 -0600, moon goddess Diana wrote:
> >Yes, I was a tad shocked by the men/bad, women/good dichotomy--is
> >that really a feminist credo?  Sheesh.  I always thought I was a
> >man--including up through graduate school in all those Pynchon
> >seminars where I was the only woman.  I was there because I wanted
> >to be, but I did notice a divergence in our responses to the
> >representations of dead women, which seemed to abound in DeLillo,
> >Pynchon, etc. and I began sadly to realize that I wasn't one of the
> >boys.  But before I became a card-carrying feminist I had to learn
> >that feminist theory regards gender constructions as the constraint
> >to be analyzed--constructions affecting men and women both.  In
> >fact in some ways I think men clearly have it worse--note the
> >earlier post about men dying younger and their lives being
> >dangerous: this could have come straight from the first day lecture
> >in my Women's Studies courses, but it came from someone who feels
> >alienated by feminist agendas! A real misunderstanding is afoot; I
> >am glad to hear about it. Diana
> >
> Yes, it's sad to see how many misunderstandings about feminism
> prevail. Feminism is a large movement that by no means consists
> entirely of female chauvinists.  Betty Friedan and other prominent
> feminists have repeatedly asserted their position that the movement
> seeks to liberate men as well as women from gender constraints.  The
> 1966 charter of NOW states as one of its primary goals the
> achievement of equality for women "in a truly equal partnership with
> men."
> 
> ObPynchon:  V. appeared in the same year as The Feminine Mystique.
> 
> davemarc
> 
> 

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