Re: PKs and Apologies

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Max B. Sawicky wrote:

>I wonder about peoples' negative scenarios
>regarding the remark that bothered you.
>Billy Bob Sixpack, former fornicator and
>drunkard, cleans up his act, appears at
>his family dinner table, swears devotion
>to Jesus Christ and family values, says
>"I am now the head of this family," and
>does .  .  . what exactly?
>
>How does the totality of his new conduct
>makes the family worse off than previously?

Why can't we imagine an even better scenario - drunkard & fornicator gives
it up and pledges himself to an equal partnership with his wife? Why does a
return to "health" have to come with a reassertion of patriarchy?

Doug