Subject: Whitey? Is he the fruit?
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 03:44:51 GMT
Yep, Cheryl, I disappoint people all the time. It's just
that when I find my patriarchal authority being challenged
I sometimes regress to those infantile jeers.
Mind you, as an old Freudian - which I suspect will
help you explain my obvious prejudices - I feel a little
aggrieved at being tarred with the geneticist's brush.
But despite my best efforts, I'm still stuck with this
intractable feeling that there IS something different
about men & women. From your latest post I get
the impression you share this view.
The Man is, if I may say, rather monotonously indicted in:
'The oppression of women can manifest itself within
the family as incest [presumably by a Man] ..."mum's
chilly control" stems from ... frustration at being
a housewife [a role imposed no doubt by a Man] ...
because she was sexually harassed out of employment
[again, presumably by a Man] ... Maybe dad's dad
[another Man] walked out one day ...'
God damn it, if I didn't know better, I'd think there
was a small element of hostility in that.
Statistics are extremely slippery instruments. What were
the questions? What was the population? What were
the definitions? How were the questions framed?
And so on. That '57%', for example, makes me a little
suspicious. It sounds a rather spurious degree of accuracy
for such material. Why not '57.65%'? And how many
Victorians, as they faded away with 'consumption', would
nowadays be diagnosed as anorexics?
Statistics give you nothing more than pictures of a society.
They're handy for people who like to pontificate about
'Society' - especially about its poisonous aspects. But they
can be lethally misleading when employed to illuminate
emotional mechanisms. Would you say the heavy
preponderance of young Irish men killing themselves was due
to the unkindness of Irish girls - or guilt at their centuries'
old oppression of Irish womanhood? Or because their
testosterone levels drive them to excessive alcohol consumption?
Or because the bloody English destroyed their ego strength
with seven centuries of oppression? Or, to be on the safe side,
all four?
My own experience leads me to believe that 97.8%
of Irish males are all basically queer - emotionally castrated
by those damnable, holy mary, bitches of mothers - & feel
compelled to knock themselves off when the approach
of adulthood threatens exposure.
(Unlike the Scots who are 99.69% straight, continue
to harass women well into their eighties & wouldn't be
caught dead committing felo de se.)
Scottie B.
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