I am trying, and it is desperately hard, not to argue with the readers who’ve been kind enough to send me critiques of “Lily’s Friend/With Her Own Eyes
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When it comes to reader responses, Terri, you're a class act.
(Now *I* have to reread Emma too! Oh, the horror!)
I'll be leaving soon to visit family, and I won't be back till the 2nd, so I'll have less online time for a while, but I'll keep checking back.
Aaaaand now I'm going to rant at you. Sorry; sensitive subject.
that child had the absolute, unmitigated gall to whistle at a white woman.This really bothers me. No one deserves to be beaten to death. Emmett Till's murderers should have been put away forever. But wolf whistling is sexual harassment. Don't imply it's nothing
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This really bothers me. No one deserves to be beaten to death. Emmett Till's murderers should have been put away forever. But wolf whistling is sexual harassment. Don't imply it's nothing.
Nice of you to just accept the whitewashed version of events.
God, just shut up. Every time you talk about Emmett Till to justify your own butthurt Nice Guy projecting-onto-Snape bullshit reasons for not getting past high school the more disgusting you and everyone who puts up with you becomes.
You are a straight white man. You have no room to talk about racism or sexism. And it is fucking galling to watch you get on your pedestal just because someone dared to insult your favorite fictional characters. The Death Eaters were a Nazi/KKK stand-in and Severus Snape was only to happy to join them. Fucking deal with it.
My very favorite feminist dyke poetterri_testingJanuary 9 2011, 05:36:24 UTC
Judy Grahn, quoted from memory, about the tangled, twisted, intersections between racism and misogyny "A Woman is Talking to Death":
We do each other in, that's a fact.
Maybe he once drove taxi and raped a lover of mine, how to tell thes things....
(About the black man the white dyke left to be railroaded for a crime he hadn't committed)
Now I think: maybe he was Josie's baby.
All of our chickens come home to roost.
All of them.
(About the hispanic straight man, twenty-years younger than the narrator, who'd just assaulted a middle-aged white woman--with impunity because she was also a dyke.... and Josie, that dyke's first-ever crush, had been a Hispanic straight girl who'd been forced to drop out of school because of her [shocking!] pregnancy).
I'm perverse, myself; I like the acknowledgment of complexity. More in fact than any facile resolution.
Thanks for posting, and for caring enough to spend thought on this issue.
Re: No one deserves to be beaten to deathterri_testingJanuary 29 2011, 07:12:20 UTC
Affirming that, even where we can't actually believe it--even where o ur own pain shrieks otherwise--yeah.
I cannot fault the child that I once was who felt that the desired, appropriate reaction to my abuser was to use my bare feet to bludgeon her to death. To trample her internal organz, savouring how she bled beneath my feet. Not some random victim: Her. That pervert who'd so casually destroyed my trust, my innocence and my sexual response.
And I am glad now that I restrained myself from doing it, from meting out that form of vengeance. I don't argue that she didn't deserve it, but I've glad I never tried so to punish her.
(Now *I* have to reread Emma too! Oh, the horror!)
I'll be leaving soon to visit family, and I won't be back till the 2nd, so I'll have less online time for a while, but I'll keep checking back.
Aaaaand now I'm going to rant at you. Sorry; sensitive subject.
that child had the absolute, unmitigated gall to whistle at a white woman.This really bothers me. No one deserves to be beaten to death. Emmett Till's murderers should have been put away forever. But wolf whistling is sexual harassment. Don't imply it's nothing ( ... )
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Nice of you to just accept the whitewashed version of events.
God, just shut up. Every time you talk about Emmett Till to justify your own butthurt Nice Guy projecting-onto-Snape bullshit reasons for not getting past high school the more disgusting you and everyone who puts up with you becomes.
You are a straight white man. You have no room to talk about racism or sexism. And it is fucking galling to watch you get on your pedestal just because someone dared to insult your favorite fictional characters. The Death Eaters were a Nazi/KKK stand-in and Severus Snape was only to happy to join them. Fucking deal with it.
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We do each other in, that's a fact.
Maybe he once drove taxi and raped a lover of mine, how to tell thes things....
(About the black man the white dyke left to be railroaded for a crime he hadn't committed)
Now I think: maybe he was Josie's baby.
All of our chickens come home to roost.
All of them.
(About the hispanic straight man, twenty-years younger than the narrator, who'd just assaulted a middle-aged white woman--with impunity because she was also a dyke.... and Josie, that dyke's first-ever crush, had been a Hispanic straight girl who'd been forced to drop out of school because of her [shocking!] pregnancy).
I'm perverse, myself; I like the acknowledgment of complexity. More in fact than any facile resolution.
Thanks for posting, and for caring enough to spend thought on this issue.
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ur own pain shrieks otherwise--yeah.
I cannot fault the child that I once was who felt that the desired, appropriate reaction to my abuser was to use my bare feet to bludgeon her to death. To trample her internal organz, savouring how she bled beneath my feet. Not some random victim: Her. That pervert who'd so casually destroyed my trust, my innocence and my sexual response.
And I am glad now that I restrained myself from doing it, from meting out that form of vengeance. I don't argue that she didn't deserve it, but I've glad I never tried so to punish her.
I didn't deserve that ( ... )
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