Re: RARA-AVIS: Racism and misogyny

From: BaxDeal@aol.com
Date: 12 Nov 2005


In a message dated 11/12/05 7:21:40 AM, miker_zspider@yahoo.com writes:

> I'm sorry to say that the casual racism and misogyny
> of that time period taint the work for me, so  that I
> can't read it again, but that's another issue.
>
> ************
> You left out homophobia.
>
> Misogyny was a strong element of hardboiled and noir.
> Woman as betrayer goes back a long ways.  If Eve
> hadn't taken a bite out of that apple, we could all
> still be fat, dumb, and happy, chilling in the Garden.
> Damn women.    
>

my 3 year old little girl has been watching a lot of old Disney fairy tales lately. man, talk about stories having WOMAN ISSUES. every single one of them has some kind of evil witch or wicked stepmother in it. and lemme tellya, these bitches are loathsome

John Lau

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/kqIolB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~->

RARA-AVIS home page: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/
  Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rara-avis-l/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
     rara-avis-l-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 12 Nov 2005 EST