> 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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