RARA-AVIS: dickless realities?

sarah matthews (ejmd@mcmail.com)
Thu, 11 Jun 1998 09:33:46 -0700 On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, "Lawrence R. (Dick) Tartow, M.D."
<goldensam@sprintmail.com> carped:

> No amount of political correctness or newspeak or silly-ass revisionism
> can change certain realities. "Dickless dicks." indeed!

You are welcome to take what reassurance you can from your 'certain
realities,' but rest assured your certainties are certainly not everyone
else's! FWIW, 'political correctness' is, IMO, a rather unpleasant term
usually deployed by the right as part of populist discourse in an
attempt to discredit or undermine the left. (The motives, if not the
politics, of) its users are thus viewed with suspicion and/or contempt.

Judging by your reaction, the 'dickless dick' is clearly a concept you
have not previously encountered. Might I suggest you read more widely?
Perhaps then those 'certain realities' can take on some kind of a
context.

BTW, the distinctions between 'literary' and 'sociological' are not as
neat as you appear to think. Popular texts, 'literary' or otherwise are
part of the terrain upon which ideological tensions and differences are
explored and resolved.

Eddie Duggan
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