(np) good news for guys...deconstruction of TBL

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Is this feminist theory?  Or is it like Will Ferrell impersonating feminist
theory, I can't tell.

I want to laugh along with it, but I'm supposed to feel emasculated, or
something?  How's it work?

How about Julianne Moore in that one recent film, terrific film, where she
plays the lesbian with what's her name, they have two teenage kids, boy and
girl, and she gets hot for the landscape winery guy and fucks him once then
all hell breaks loose.  "I never specifickly *said* I'm gay, did I?"  "For
god's sake, we have two kids!"  "But I mean, technickly, I never *said*..."

(Spoiler: She gives up the hulking every-woman's-dream for the bitching
older woman and the dull as shit suburban life.)

Maybe I should click on that link, rather than just reading the conclusion?
 But I've seen Lewboski four or five times anyway, will Ms. Donald ruin
everything for me forever.  Or will she, enhance my experience for me?


On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> That female character in Lebowski, played by Moore, is some kind of
> thematic distant cousin descendant of Yashmeen, yes?
>
>   *From:* Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> *To:* pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Sent:* Friday, May 18, 2012 6:42 AM
> *Subject:* Re: (np) good news for guys...deconstruction of TBL
>
> On 5/17/2012 2:52 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> > wunderbar, imho.
>
> Thanks, Mark.
>
> I couldn't resist the convergence. And Yashmeen definitely IS tutoring
> Cyprian in things to come.
>
> P
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> >
> > *From:* Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> > *To:* pynchon-l at waste.org
> > *Sent:* Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:57 AM
> > *Subject:* Re: (np) good news for guys...deconstruction of TBL
> >
> > On 5/17/2012 12:40 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
> >  > online paper on Big Lebowski& feminist theory:
> >  >
> >
> http://dudespaper.com/dude-university/bowling-gender-and-emasculation-in-the-big-lebowski/
> >  >
> >  > conclusion reached ---
> >  >
> >  > As the myth of manhood continues to be deconstructed, men may be able
> >  > to release the steady grip on their testicles that they have held for
> >  > centuries, thereby allowing healthy circulation to the weak phallus of
> >  > male identity, mapping out new male territory where they can be both
> >  > confident and erect.
> >  >
> >  > -Lisa Donald
> >  >
> >  > May 22, 2006
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> >
> > "Before this is done with," she informed him, "if it ever is,
> > you will no longer imagine, you will believe."
> >
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