Re: [Fwd: Fw: Wolff on Johnson, _Soul by Soul_]

["bob brown" <vacirca@xxxxxxxxx>]

you're loony tunes mark ! what planet are  you living on anyway? and tell us
what YOU'VE done lately  to stop the the selling of women's bodies on the
world market? TALK ABOUT COLLABORATION! bob brown
--
"solidarity means sharing the same risks" - Che
( la solidarita significa correre gli stessi rischi)

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>From: Katha Pollitt <kpollitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: M-Fem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Fwd: Fw: Wolff on Johnson, _Soul by Soul_]
>Date: Tue, Jun 13, 2000, 3:27 PM
>

> The absurdity of this post speaks for itself.
> You need a nap.
> Katha
>
> M A Jones wrote:
>>
>> What's interesting about the American national psychosis is the way that the
>> antebellum South still shapes it: genteel discussions about slavery in the
>> presence of the slaves is its hallmark, and continues even here, as we see
>> in Katha Pollitt's somewhat mocking references to the fate of Serbian and
>> Albanian slaves bought and sold by Nato-sponsored hucksters in exactly the
>> same way that antebellum-south slaves were  bought and sold. As Johnson,
>> (below) says: "sellers and buyers
>> > displayed their "knowledge" of slave bodies, reading them for signs of
>> > punishment and disease, extrapolating character traits and physical
>> > abilities from their faces, hands, limbs, and breasts, and all the while
>> > defining through these acts their own honor, manhood and mastery."
>>
>> We read the same accounts of contemporary slave-markets in Kosovo, where
>> nude girls are demonstrated to purchasers before export to Germany,
>> the US, Britain. Are not the 'feminists' who stand by in determined silence,
>> simply the 'kapos' of this process? When Katha speaks of 'antiquated
>> Serbians' with their silly romantic ideas about defending their womenfolk,
>> is this not the apotheosis of collaboration?
>>
>> Mark Jones
>> http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList
>>
>>
>