-----Message d'origine-----
De : sarah matthews <ejmd@mcmail.com>
=C0 : rara-avis@icomm.ca <rara-avis@icomm.ca>
Date : jeudi 11 juin 1998 10:33
Objet : RARA-AVIS: dickless realities?
>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 revisionis=
m
>> 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?=20
>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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