Cliterectomies are still known to take place on young British females
(although they are of course illegal).
I have a vague memory of a medical student being prosectuted for carrying
several out fairly recently.
And the British tabloid press still refers to them as female circumcision
rather than female castration/mutliation.
Tina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: Help! The grass is singing
> At 04:41 PM 3/29/2006, you wrote:
> >On 29/3/06 11:50 PM, "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > But what I've been talking about at some
> > > length isn't a question of discipleship, but of dialogue.
> >
> >Sure: but how can you presume the dialogues of others? Especially with
> >something as multiply conscious as poetry.
>
> OK, so as a poet you're in dialogue with Eliot. If you say so.
>
>
> >And the, yes, Abrahamic images
> >are somewhat patriarchal, no?
>
> OK, like Sarah, the father of many tribes.
>
> Maybe we should ban all reference, no matter how formulaic, to
> anything produced by earlier generations--they were so unPC.
>
> I presume that you're trying to be funny. Just in case, this kind of
> feminism is the self-indulgence of the privileged. If we all chose
> other references there would still be clitorectomies and massive
> amounts of gender-directed violence. Best not to waste one's time on
> this simplistic nonsense, I would think. Especially when dealing with
> something as "multiply conscious" as gender.
>
>
>
> >Plus there's something Oedipal in this insistent interring of Eliot. But
> >this is merely intransigent back and forth.
>
> Hey, aint my daddy. Or mommy.
>
> I will admit to a taste for provocativeness, tho. A quality we share.
>
>
> >All best
> >
> >A
> >
> >
> >Alison Croggon
> >
> >Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> >Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
> >Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
>
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