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> BJay wrote:
> >
> > "Graham"  wrote in message
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> > > Tilly wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Graham wrote:
> > > > > Tilly wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>  Since her death 150 years ago, Charlotte
Brontė has been
sanitised
> > > > >> as a dull, Gothic drudge. Far from it, says
Tanya Gold; the
author
> > > > >> was a filthy, frustrated, sex-obsessed genius
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Friday March 25, 2005
> > > > >> The Guardian
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Elizabeth Gaskell is a literary criminal, who, in 1857,
perpetrated a
> > > > >> heinous act of grave-robbing. Gaskell took
Charlotte Brontė, the
> > > > >> author of Jane Eyre, the dirtiest, darkest,
most depraved fantasy
of
> > > > >> all time, and, like an angel murdering a
succubus, trod on her.
In a
> > > > >> "biography" called The Life of
Charlotte Brontė, published just
two
> > > > >> years after the author's death, Gaskell
stripped Charlotte of her
> > > > >> genius and transformed her into a sexless,
death-stalked saint.
> > > > >> As the 150th anniversary of her death on March 31 1855
approaches,
> > > > >> it is time to rescue Charlotte Brontė. She has
been chained,
> > > > >> weeping, to a radiator in the Haworth
Parsonage, Yorkshire, for
too
> > > > >> long. Enough of Gaskell's fake miserabilia.
Enough of the Brontė
> > > > >> industry's veneration of coffins, bonnets and
tuberculosis. It is
> > > > >> time to exhume the real Charlotte - filthy
bitch, grandmother of
> > > > >> chick-lit, and friend............... CONTD
> > > > >
> > > > > Any pictures? Oh, I forgot, you women only have
words. That's why
you
> > > > > read rape-fantasy fiction. Fucking hypocrites.
> > > >
> > > > I have to give it to you, you are hillariously funny.
> > >
> > > Bullshit because you're a feminist. And women most certainly *do* have
a
> > > sexual fantasy of being raped.
> > >
> > > If you're a true feminist you'll be mightily pissed off at that
> > > assertion. (To which I would point out to you the fiction that women
> > > read for their kicks.)
> >
> > idiot generalisations,
> > you're a disaster waiting to happen
>
> Yea, how dare they call it 'women's romantic fiction', or adult movies
> 'adult movies'.
>
> Check out these feminist generalisations. I'm sure you'll then agree
> with me that the feminist movement was a disaster waiting to happen to
> all of society.....
>
>  ******************************************************
>
>  "I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion
> which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he
> cannot have it. He's just incapable of it." -- Former Congresswoman
> Barbara Jordan
>
> "All men are rapists and that's all they are" -- Marilyn
French, Author,
> "The Women's Room"
>
> "I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that
> the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is
> oppressing them." -- Robin Morgan, MS. Magazine Editor
>
> "I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has
> not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and
> desire." -- Robin Morgan
>
> "And let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are
> oppressed, too, by sexism--the lie that there can be such a thing as
> 'men's liberation groups.' Oppression is something that one group of
> people commits against another group, specifically because of a
> 'threatening' characteristic shared by the latter group--skin color, sex
> or age, etc. The oppressors are indeed FUCKED UP by being masters, but
> those masters are not OPPRESSED. Any master has the alternative of
> divesting himself of sexism or racism--the oppressed have no
> alternative--for they have no power--but to fight. In the long run,
> Women's Liberation will of course free men--but in the short run it's
> going to cost men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or
> easily. Sexism is NOT the fault of women--kill your fathers, not your
> mothers." -- Robin Morgan
>
> "My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little
> sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the
> handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in
> his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to shrug.
> I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames
> and yearnings were, simply don't matter." -- Marilyn French, in "The
> Women's Room"
>
> "Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt
> for women's bodies." -- Andrea Dworkin
>
> "In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because
> women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent,"
> said Catherine MacKinnon in Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from
> the Strange World of Women's Studies.
>
> "And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average
> dominant heterosexual [male], it may be mainly a quantitative
> difference." -- Susan Griffin "Rape: The All-American Crime"
>
> "The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist" -- Ti-Grace
> Atkinson "Amazon Odyssey" (p. 86)
>
> "[Rape] is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation
> by which all men keep all women in a state of fear" -- Susan Brownmiller
> (Against Our Will p. 6)
>
> "When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with
> the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression..." -- Sheila
> Jeffrys
>
> FROM 'A Feminist Dictionary', ed. Kramarae and Treichler, Pandora Press,
> 1985
>
>    *MALE: ... represents a variant of or deviation from the category
>    of female. The first males were mutants... the male sex represents
>    a degeneration and deformity of the female.'
>    *MAN: ... an obsolete life form... an ordinary creature who needs
>    to be watched ... a contradictory baby-man ...
>    *TESTOSTERONE POISONING: ... 'Until now it has been though that
>    the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have
>    it. But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you
>    are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from
>    "testosterone poisoning."
>
> Letter to the Editor: "Women's Turn to Dominate"
> "To Proud Feminist, (Herald-Sun, 7 February). Your last paragraph is
> shocking language from a feminist. You use the entrenched, revolting
> male stereotypes of women and rationalize your existence by saying you
> are neither "ugly" nor "manless", as though either of these
> male-oriented judgments matter.
>
> "Clearly you are not yet a free-thinking feminist but rather one of
> those women who bounce off the male-dominated, male- controlled social
> structures.
>
> "Who cares how men feel or what they do or whether they suffer? They
> have had over 2000 years to dominate and made a complete hash of it. Now
> it is our turn. My only comment to men is, if you don't like it, bad
> luck -- and if you get in my way I'll run you down." Signed: Liberated
> Woman, Boronia Herald-Sun, Melbourne, Australia - 9 February 1996
>
> "Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometime gain from the
> experience," said Catherine Comins, Vassar College Assistant Dean of
> Student Life in Time.
>
> "If the classroom situation is very heteropatriarchal -- a large
> beginning class of 50 to 60 students, say, with few feminist students --
> I am likely to define my task as largely one of recruitment...of
> persuading students that women are oppressed," said Professor Joyce
> Trebilcot of Washington University in "Who Stole Feminism: How Women
> Have Betrayed Women."
>
> "We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men." Elizabeth
Cady Stanton,
> quoted in " One Woman, One Voice ", Wheeler, page 58.
>
> "No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children.
> Society should be totally different. Women should not have that  choice,
> precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make
> that one."  Simone de Beauvoir, author of _The  Second Sex_, the book
> that is credited with launching the mainstream of the modern feminist
> movement

If all this stuff is true, I must have been getting raped for over 40 years!
Yeah!!




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