sound and fury

[Vaska Tumir]

>From Chris: 

>Sigh.  I knew it was too much to hope that this was over.
>
>>Vaska the intimidating sexist scholar strikes back
>
>For any who misunderstood:  I meant intimidating as a compliment, not a
>tweak.  

It's OK, Chris, I've been called worse before, remember?  Hard as is might
be to credit, there are those who think of me as a jellyfish, though -- so,
go figure....

> I never said that you were
>sexist; I said that a remark you made was sexist.  I wasn't lobbing
>anything at you; I resent your aggression here.

Resent away, but when the stuff signed by me and available in those archives
is described as an attack on what I alledgedely characterized as the
misogyny of the P-list, I scratch me head and pound off a correction of
sorts to the list itself.  As I said in my public mail to Andrew, uncanny
sense of timing, no?

>> Resubscribed less than 36 hours ago...
>
>Do us all a favor then and read some fucking mail before you go off
>making pronouncements about who's witty and who's slamming.

Chill out, Chris: did my best, but the stuff just wasn't there.  [Didn't
think Dana's post was witty?  Or that lovely ode she's just sent to us all?
Guess not.] John Krafft tells me there's a way to get all the latest from
the waste.org site, but I haven't discovered the secret yet.  Just wasted an
hour looking for it the other night.

>I repeat:  Do us all a favor (before I have a fit, btw--that's how tired
>I am of this nonsense) and stop instigating trouble on an issue about
>which you know nothing. 

What can I say, nonsense is as nonsense does, and at the risk of repeating
myself -- chill out, Chris, it's just too bad that unlike Diana I can take
it when people start telling others not to pull a "Diana York Blaine" or "a
Vaska" on them.  [Diana YB, I hope you're having a couple of chuckles at
this point, if you're still around and lurming, that is.]

>Forgive me for beating on this, folks (especially when Dana and I seem to
>have achieved some foundation for true female solidarity through private
>mail), but the whole issue and exchange of messages the other night was
>fairly exhausting and painful for all concerned.  I'm really annoyed by
>this interference when it seemed the matter had been somewhat reasonably
>settled.

Well, I can always unsubscribe again if I'm intefering in matters reasonably
settled [a hypothetical case, but don't hold your breath: too many people
have written to say hello, so I guess *they* didn't mind too terribly much].
And, come to think of it, Dana seemed pretty glad I suddenly showed up and
chirped in, partly in her defense -- talking about those private messages,
as we seem to be doing.... [On the other hand, I will be away at Cornell
this weekend, so it's small mercies time, isn't it, Chris?]

>And leave Mittelwerk out of this.  Secretly, he's a woman, too.

Oh.  That explains it, then.  Probably a lesbian, also, judging by what I've
read....  Ah, Mittelwerk, and there you had us all deceived and
double-fooled all this time!  You sly old dyke, you!

Vaska

P.S. Apologies to everyone else: but the message I'm responding to was
posted to the list....