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

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Oh, I went ahead and clicked on the link.  It's like a term paper!  I
thought, coming from Mr. Bailey, it must be like a serious professional
grade essay.  Nevermind.  And my apologies to Ms. Dunbar--

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Madeleine Maudlin <
madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> >  >
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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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