NP (unless Pig's upcoming attempt counts)

[Michael Bailey]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Young male playwright Shakespeare, stretching himself with his quill pen,
> had 'rape' on his mind--for his work-- as a possible happening in a play that
> carried
> some kind of human resonance, it seems...........

> Against Our Will, Susan Brownmiller......a book I never read 'cause I thought
> the thesis
> was 'crazy'...........

reviewer at Amazon said he hesitated to read it because of that thesis:

'Rape is the conscious conspiracy by which all men keep all women in
subjugation.' I dismissed it as the work of a crank.
Then, a few years later, I had to read it for a college class.
Surprise! Cross out the half-dozen oft-quoted lines, and what was left
was very good and thoughtful.





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- But you can wade in the water
and never get wet
if you keep on doin' that rag (Grateful Dead, "Doin' That Rag")