MDDM "Truth" and history

[Otto]

I liked the article too, especially Keenan's wedding/divorce comparison:

For simply this reason that we almost never get an objective story out of
both opponents the question who is "responsible" for the failure of the
marriage, German law has dropped the responsibility question at all. In the
past a court rule that the woman (mostly without a job) had been responsible
has let to the decision that the man (mostly making the money) must not pay
& that he "gets" the children (because, being an adulteress she had "proven"
that she's a bad mother). This has been changed to (mostly for the sake of
the children) the ruling that no matter who's been the adulterer/adulteress
the one who is better off economically pays, and the question of what's to
become of the children now is decided exclusively on what's better for them,
and, if they're old enough, what their wishes are. This enables the courts
to far more differentiated decisions.

Moral relativism, one could say (as the blue team does), but fitting better
to reality imo.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: MDDM "Truth" and history


> on 17/8/02 2:04 PM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > "Referring to the loose collection of theories
> > usually associated with such names as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault,
> > and Roland Barthes (BTW, All white males, no?)
>
> Only two of them dead, however, and I'm not sure that Derrida, as the son
of
> an Algerian Jewish family, quite counts as "white", but I take your point.
> She could as easily have added Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Michèle Le
> Doueff (someone I think you might like), Marguerite Duras or Linda
Hutcheon,
> I guess.
>
> I actually thought Keenan's article was fairly even-handed, and
entertaining
> (it being a weekend newspaper, after all), and that the battle metaphors
she
> used were only half-serious. There seemed to me to be a real theme of
> conciliation, or common ground, coming through in *her* report on the
> debate.
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/16/1029114008334.html
>
> best
>
>

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