If you can't tell the difference between men and women
there's nothing I can say that's going to help you.
volente Deo,
Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
"The dead are heavy, after all."
-Will Christopher Baer, "Penny Dreadful"
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> From: Jess Nevins
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 10:49 PM
>
> Okay. If there's such a thing as a "female voice" or
a
> "female perspective," I'd like to know what it is.
Please
> explain it to me.
>
> While you're at it, please tell me why female
writers who
> don't share the qualities you assign to a "female
voice"
> are not, therefore, female.
>
> Oh, and tell me why male writers who write in a
"female
> voice" aren't male.
>
> Oh, and also explain to me how the idea of a
"female
> voice" and a "female perspective," which reduce
the
> writer to her sex, somehow celebrate the
uniqueness
> of individuals, rather than celebrate the putative
qualities
> of the felame sex as a whole.
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