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From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: 2 poems
> You know, the funny thing is that I could let Frederick's obvious
> sexism go by without a ruffle (and it's not for me to arbitrate,
> anyway) - but Kasper, this is a horrible and utterly racist quotation.
> And damn the accusations of PC, which are often just lazy defences of
> lazy bigotries.
>
For the record, I absolutely deny sexism, "obvious" or otherwise. Including
"sexist" intent in my original phrase "meaty masterpiece." The kind of
reasoning Barry Alpert showed in a) calling ME sexist because that phrase
struck HIM as sexist, as well as b) intimating that La Auerbach is beyond
attack because she has garnered po-biz and academic honors, is not to be
tolerated. But the bleating of a herd of PC-liberals is as little
susceptible to argument as a swarm of rightists. I will NOT get into an
IDIOTIC pseudo-controversy of this sort, which always results in someone
leaving the list in a self-righteous huff. I'll just go back to my usual
lurking state.
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