A question of phrasing
A Professor at Ryerson University is in some trouble for making sexist comments on his blog. I though you might like to read this:
Kokkarinen [the professor] admits he could have phrased his opinions a lot better in one of his posts, such as the one dated April 19.
He wrote: “I have never really understood how lesbian separatism could work even in principle, since few modern women would want to live in what is essentially a stone age society, which is pretty much what women could ever achieve on their own without men around.”
He goes on to say that the feminists would live off the “generous” welfare cheques provided by men, “assuming that they wanted to eat (and usually lesbians do eat a lot, as you can tell just by looking at them).”
I think he phrased his opinions quite clearly the first time around.
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Also: an interesting counter-factual regarding the foiled Heathrow bomb plot.
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Edit: To be fair to Kakkarinen, he is really quite repentant. Still, the fact that it would be hard to be less politically correct than these quotes are is pretty funny.
njero said,
Sep 25, 07:51 #
Silly Tristan, misreading his articles… Oh, you know what I mean.
Tristan said,
Sep 25, 07:56 #
Yeah. Fixed. Thanks.
James Joyce said,
Oct 3, 20:40 #
Two questoins.
1.Has anyone actually countered the professor’s claims yet about what a lesbian society would look like or have people just been raging against his political incorectness?
2.Does anyone have any statistics that speak to the weight of lesbian females, in comparison to the weight of the general female population?
Steph said,
Oct 4, 17:56 #
Wow! James Joyce posted on your blog! The deceased James Joyce even…
K. Wilson said,
Oct 5, 08:22 #
Indeed. Congratulaions Tristan!
James Joyce ascending to write in your blog!
steph said,
Oct 5, 16:49 #
i don’t see Graham Greene ever doing anything as miraculous as THAT…
K. Wilson said,
Oct 6, 08:56 #
No. In Graham Greene’s case it would be descending.
Joyce is ascending.
In relation to Tristan’s blog, what does that tell you about the geographical location of both Joyce and Greene, turtle?
Tristan said,
Oct 7, 03:57 #
I, of course, am honoured at the mere thought of James Joyce visiting my humble blog. But this is not James Joyce at all, who in the first half of this century brought English prose to its apotheosis, and was promptly beatified.
No, this smacks of the overrated pretensions of Catholic author Graham Green himself. He would be descending indeed, since he at best received the cosmological honour of estellation along with countless other mediocre greats, while Joyce, in beatification, can be described from any, all, and no geographical points. He neither comes nor goes, but simply is – as the left eye of the Western canon, he sees all, and corresponds only with Shakespeare, the right eye.
In the beginning, he spoke the word, and since then, something like God himself, has remained silent.
But we appreciate your attempts to locate these wise men Kelly, however flawed. Like most pilgrims, it is no surprise that you become lost along the way from time to time.
K. Wilson said,
Oct 7, 16:21 #
I am sorry Tristan. Were you talking about ‘Graham Greene,’ or ‘Graham Greene.’
With regards to the substance of your comments, just as in the case of mythical debate that surrounds global warming (where I took you to the cleaners), so also here, you have forgotten that where you and I differ, you can only be wrong.
Assuming that you meant Graham Greene, might I ask why you mentioned the fact that he was Roman Catholic? While you may have a problem with poets like Auden, or composers like Tchaikovsky, and view both their poetry and music based on their sexual orientation, am I to suppose that besides being unable to spell the names of literary giants, you are also unable to seperate your anti-Catholic bias from your ability to evaluate literature?
K. Wilson said,
Oct 7, 16:34 #
Before you write a three page response highlighting the fact that the name ‘Graham Greene’ appears identically in my correction of your faulty spelling, please understand that I respect literary giants like Mr. Greene and Joyce, and even when correcting a faulty speller like yourself, I would never dare repeat their error.
May I also suggest that instead of filling these pages with your rhetoric, you could respond to the questions that Mr. Joyce (or whoever is speaking for him) has raised?
K.
Tristan said,
Oct 7, 23:52 #
I personally have not seen or read anything that addressed either of those questions. Though Prof. K indicated before shutting down his blog completely that, expressed in the way he expressed them, they demanded no serious response.
In broader terms, however, I think the question of what an Amazon-esque society would look like has been addressed from many angles by many authors with many different intentions and levels of seriousness. Margaret Atwood depicted one in The Handmaid’s Tale, though I’ve never read it. I have read a couple of John Barth’s farcical depictions. My favourite literary approach to the topic is much less direct and found in the writings of Mordecai Richler.
As far as philosophical approaches, you’ll probably find all sorts even in just the Prov library. I’m sure Mary Daly would beg to differ with K. on no uncertain terms.
Tristan said,
Oct 8, 00:05 #
And I only mention Greene’s Catholocism because that is how he is widely remembered – as a great Catholic author (despite his own protestations). Joyce, on the other hand, is universal and his name requires no qualification. He transcended his Catholicism, which is something history has shown Greene incapable of doing.