just so - using sexual shaming as a weapon in an argument draws on a really
destructive tradition of woman hating that arises out of exactly the
equations you make. The female/the body/nature.... all of them belonging to
the territory of the abject, to be rejected, contained, mutilated - or
simply denied.
It would be a creative thing to move beyond those categories and look for a
more life affirming and dignified way to think........
And Erminia, death is precisely one of those bodily realities that I would
want to reclaim/rethink....
I am charmed by your invitation to 'get thee to a nunnery' - a life I have
always thought sounded wonderful - but no candles? You will have to be a
very strict Abbess to enforce that one Erminia!
Liz
> -----Original Message-----
> From: British & Irish poets [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Alison Croggon
> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 5:07 AM
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> Subject: Re: FW: Alison's egocentric poetics
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> Liz's refusal of your aggression is hardly self contradictory. At
> issue is the question of your pornographic language, in which you
> fashion sexuality into a weapon to use against a woman interlocutor,
> who is (of course) a whore, or at least a "courtesan", and your
> strange idea that this has anything to do with either erotics or
> eroticism. It just looks like good old fashioned misogyny to me.
>
> A
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