I rather like spiders. They perform a useful function in catching flies, and
I for one am grateful. This is a good excuse too not to worry about removing
the webs.
But then, our spiders don't bite, do they.
best joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: Announcing Masthead 9
>
> I personally think that *arachnophobia* is an insufficiently
> recognised social menace, enforcing as it does an oppressive and
> arbitrary distinction between so-called "species" and denigrating our
> web-weaving cousins as a hideous alien menace, a bug-eyed,
> furry-legged, bath-infesting Other.
>
> Spiders are our friends!
>
> ...but only if they want to be, obviously, I mean I wouldn't want to
> suggest that I wanted to co-opt them into some hegemonic
> assimilationist project of erasing species difference under the
> heading of a spurious universalism that would be only another mask for
> anthropocentric domination. Or nuthin'.
>
> Repeat after me: four legs good, eight legs *better*.
>
> Dominic
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