Re: Pornography

[jclark@nexus.polaris.net (Joseph S. Clark)]

The Silver-Flag Boy (u3a97@teach.cs.keele.ac.uk) was reputed to have uttered:
:>Lou Fox (fox@panix.com) wrote:
:>: opinion, Kate Bush is a feminist and her work is feminist work, whether 
:>: or not you think so or she thinks so. Feminism is not a dirty word and 
:>			 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:>Up to her to decide isn't it?

P'raps and then p'raps not.  Could be "feminism's" a rubric that can be 
both applied by others and claimed by onesself, so that, in a Venn 
diagram, the two circles "those who call themselves feminists" and "those 
who exhibit feminist behaviors" would overlap but not coincide.  Not 
coincide.

_However_ one defines "feminism," it's just like "racism," 
"intellectualism," "elitism," "Darwinism,"  or any other "ism."  You can 
claim you is or isn't an -ist, but that ain't what throws the final 
weight in this socially-constructed mob-dream.  Humans live by the Duck 
Rule: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, etc.

So what becomes more interesting to me is how people come to define 
ducks.  Then I'll tell ya if Kate's back sheds water.  And arguments re 
her duckness or anyotherness would seem perfectly natural topics of 
conversation among her admirers.

One of which I remain,

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