childbirth etc./AND P CONTENT!

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

Henry Kingman recapitualted Vaska:

> Which I took to mean: an individual is informed by compensatory analogs
> such as nature/culture and masculine/feminism, being the product of both
> sorts of influence and rarely if ever all one side or all the other. So
> like, you have all those foax on AOL getting in touch with their foaxo
> or foaxa sides, as the case may be...? [did I get that right?]

No, she said that culture was in our nature, ergo, likewise, feminism
must be an inherent feature of our masculism. Didn't Aristotle himself
say `man is a female animal'? or something?

> Or you have young 'prentice McClean, expected to play the swaggering
> masculino for the men who smoak his dangerousness and the passive neuter
> for the milk maids, who may expect him to be above desire given his
> obvious powers, or something.

You know, I read this stuff, and I think "am I stupid, or what?"  And
I read it again, and I say, "I still don't have a fucking clue what
he's on about."

Which is actually the worse torture, having to play the swaggering
masculino for the men or the passive neuter for the milk maids? As if
childbirth was the worst thing that could happen to a man. We have
found the enemy, men, and they are us.

  . . .

> So if parsing people is pretty pathetic, can you parse bodies medical
> along nature/nurture lines?

Cut to Flanders and Swann howling a quick chorus of

    `Parsing people is wrong!'

   . . . re Tiresias

> "There is in fact more earth than sea," he said, but he was wrong about
> that wasn't he?

I thought that was a line from a Peter Gabriel song?

> "With their longer pelvic muscles and superior pelvic blood supply, the
> female capacity for orgasm is indeed profound (Masters and Johnson? Why
> can I never *remember* these things! I do recall that it was an
> observation prompted by clinical observation of a woman who, after
> riding her bicycle to the location, achieved over 200 orgasms within
> several hours).

`riding her bicycle to the location' Is that some perverse sexual
metaphor I've not heard before?

ObPynchon:

No one has yet complained about how wimpy, formulaic, perversted and
puppet-like the women in M&D are. Anyone want to start the ball[s]
rolling? And if not, why not?


Andrew Dinn
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