Femenist reading of IV

[Robin Landseadel]

On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:39 AM, rich wrote:

> . . . (are we equating feminist markers with pussy eating?-that  
> sounds weird to me) . . .

Hmmm . . .

Managed to work/live in the S.F. bay area while all sorts of feminist/ 
separatist goings on were going on. On the one hand such depictions  
can be interpreted as male fantasies and projections—hot girl-on-girl  
action for the trenchcoat crowd, just like back in the good old days  
of "Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!!!. On the other hand there was a  
significant movement of woymn who wanted noting to do with men—Mary  
Daly, the younger Z. Budapest, many others. Inherent Vice, in part, is  
concerned with the first glimmerings of the feminist/separatist  
movement.

Mind you, everybody in Inherent Vice is compromised. T 'n A sez that  
IV is TRP's most feminist book and it may well be, but [using the  
sense of preterite as social strata and not getting out trousers in a  
bundle over the religious meanings of the whole Elect/Preterite  
schema] it is also the author's book most focused on society's rejects.