Re: RARA-AVIS: dickless realities?

Sonia Abecassis (sabecass@capgemini.fr)
Thu, 11 Jun 1998 11:24:56 +0200 Hello
These discussions are very enlightening, from the perspective of a French=
hard-boiled fan , I heartily conccur with the opinion expressed ; howeve=
r , would it be possible to use less acronyms or explicit them ? what is =
IMO, BTW, FWIW ?=20
Thanks a million
Sonia

-----Message d'origine-----
De : sarah matthews <ejmd@mcmail.com>
=C0 : rara-avis@icomm.ca <rara-avis@icomm.ca>
Date : jeudi 11 juin 1998 10:33
Objet : RARA-AVIS: dickless realities?

>On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, "Lawrence R. (Dick) Tartow, M.D."
><goldensam@sprintmail.com> carped:
>
>> No amount of political correctness or newspeak or silly-ass revisionis=
m
>> can change certain realities. "Dickless dicks." indeed!
>
>You are welcome to take what reassurance you can from your 'certain
>realities,' but rest assured your certainties are certainly not everyone
>else's! FWIW, 'political correctness' is, IMO, a rather unpleasant term
>usually deployed by the right as part of populist discourse in an
>attempt to discredit or undermine the left. (The motives, if not the
>politics, of) its users are thus viewed with suspicion and/or contempt.
>
>Judging by your reaction, the 'dickless dick' is clearly a concept you
>have not previously encountered. Might I suggest you read more widely?=20
>Perhaps then those 'certain realities' can take on some kind of a
>context.
>
>BTW, the distinctions between 'literary' and 'sociological' are not as
>neat as you appear to think. Popular texts, 'literary' or otherwise are
>part of the terrain upon which ideological tensions and differences are
>explored and resolved.
>
>
>Eddie Duggan
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