Beauvoir & V. in a C/c atholic Man's World

[Ian Livingston]

So, I guess you're saying that, in the end, even the great Simone had
to concede it is, by agreement, a man's world? We are fraternal at
birth.

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:40 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> fraternity could then be born between them.
>>
>> Interesting choice of words, don't you think? Why mightn't sorority be
>> born between them, I wonder? or community? or sympathy?
>
> Well, "sorority" suffers from the same gendered connotations as
> "fraternity", and "community" does not connote the family relations
> that are "born" between or even among, and "sympathy" is not what is
> meant at all. The Introduction, like the text itself, is easily
> deconstructed along such absurd uses/abuses of language.
>
> It's a girl
> I'm a boy
>
> an object / subject use I am familar with but not in the context the
> author describes: labels used in hospitals. In my experience, "it's a
> girl" and "it's a boy" are used, on cigars and the like to announce
> the birth of a girl or a boy. Now, that cigars are handed out may
> upset penis-envy-post-Freudian-uncircumsized-femenist-homosexual-males,
> but you can't put everyone in your pipe when you smoke freud.
>



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