V ch. 5 part 2 Imaginary Alligators, Real buckshot

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Fri Aug 20 00:24:55 CDT 2010


Joseph Tracy  wrote:
> I can certainly understand that discomfort. Guys are definitely more
> insulated from the sense that a a male character represents general gender
>  notions.

Rachel and Esther are a lot cooler, if that's any help, Rachel singing
in the shower eg

Merciless ad hominem lampooning...or ad feminam...imagining, like,
well, Sarah Palin at home, or Ann Coulter, or Michelle Malkin, (or
Michiko Kakutani, eh?) in the most unflattering ways possible, is that
really sexist?
It may be an offense against certain notions of good taste and highmindedness...

A closer analogue might be Maria Shriver?  nah, Maria and the
Governator, that's good but topologically a very different surface
than Rooney and Mafia.
Still, how can she...and does her lingerie glow (that's started a
train of thought in my mind as well)...ah, well, not my business...

ok, how about, hmm...Pat Nixon?  Eleanor Roosevelt?  Laura Bush?

what prominent Social Darwinist and racist female novelist can we
picture in an unflattering comfy-at-home scenario, detailing the
specific ways
(...which I believe I can prove are related to the deficiencies in her
philosophy...) that she makes her mate unhappy?

(besides Ayn Rand - wasn't she hot and heavy with Mickey Spillane?
who's not quite picturable as Rooney Winsome...)



One more thing: the associative skein linking Mafia -> Jewish Mafia
didn't occur in my mind, partly because I'm not very familiar with the
latter term,
but also because the villains in Mafia's novels are Jews, aren't they?
 So she's anti-Semitic, and she tries (unsuccessfully) to encourage
Roony in the prejudice
he grew up with in North Carolina against Blacks.



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