pynchon's misogyny

[Joe Varo]

On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Andrew Dinn wrote:

> No black woman looks anything like Angelfood McSpade. Some white women
> do approximate vaguely to Playboy girls (even the models don't actually
> approximate physically to what appears in the mag thanks to all the
> prior preening, pruning and airbrushing - we will ignore the stuff that
> goes by name of biographical blurb). So, black women miss out not just
> once because they do not conform to the white standard of beauty but
> twice because they do not even approximate to the standard against which
> black women qua black women are judged. 

Andrew,

Am I missing something here or are you saying that Angelfood McSpade, a
cartoon character, is the standard [of beauty] "against which black women
qua black women are judged"?

Joe