Every Woman Loves a Fascist, Sylvia Plath thread

[Otto]

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2013/10/9 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> Pynchon focuses often on power inequalities, and their psychological
> dynamics.  A very stark example of this was Austra (I think), the very
> seductive slave in MD.  She used her sexuality as an expression of the
> existing power inequality.  Sometimes the answer to oppression is submission
> in so extreme a manner that it shakes the confidence of the oppressor.
>
> The desire to be fucked by a fascist isn't the same, but in Pynchon's world
> they are somehow connected.  Don't ask me how.
>
> David Morris
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 8, 2013, Markekohut wrote:
>>
>> Cannot get to Bekah and Laura's original posting of this seminal line.
>> But, thoughts occur. Of course, Laura is right that for Sylvia it was
>> written in pain and rage.
>>
>> But isn't that probably because she was able to see/ feel it in herself (
>> probably) and hated
>> The truth of it?
>>
>> And mightn't that truth be because of the nature of the men in her world,
>> our American-English Western world? The dare-I-write-an-academic word like "
>> patriarchal" world ( certainly not true of a lot of Golden Bough cultures,
>> FYI) in which women exist?
>>
>> Isn't this our world and Pynchon just lives in it? And sees it, often very
>> clearly?
>>
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