Relevance to boys ed? I think we're a bit out on the edges of what we should be looking at guys. Chris
Ferrel Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ---> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Gerry wrote: > >> Dr >> Farrell is not an "angry divorced father", and has been elected three >> times to the Board of the National Organisation of Women in New York >> City, probably the only man to have done so. > > He is also reported to have had a very tolerant attitude towards incest. > He tells lies about this: when asked why this rumour about him being > pro-incest keeps coming up, he fails to mention a Penthouse magazine > article in which he is quoted as saying (in reference to a book he was > writing about the issue): Fails to mention it? He's been responding on the issue for years. > "... millions of people who are now refraining from touching, holding, and > genitally caressing their children, when that is really a part of a caring, > loving expression, are repressing the sexuality of a lot of children and > themselves. Maybe this needs repressing, and maybe it doesn't. My book > should at least begin the exploration." Since Gerry "fails to mention" Warren's explanation of this passage, let me apprise the rest of you of it: he says that the interviewer mistranscribed his word 'generally' into 'genitally'. As for myself, I wasn't there, so I don't know what Warren has actually said on this subject; nor have I ever seen the original Penthouse article. What I do know is how some people love to distort what others have said, so I would ask Gerry the following two questions: > ...and... > > If pushed to the wall, would Farrell urge incest on families? "Incest is > like a magnifying glass," he summarizes. "In some circumstances it > magnifies the beauty of the relationship..." [1] Is the above passage also from the Penthouse article; if not, what is its original source? [2] Did you personally read these quotations in the original source(s)? If not, what was your immediate source? > Even though he had ample opportunity at the time to correct what he now > calls a mis-quote he never did until relatively recently Just *how* recently is this supposed to have happened? You sound terribly sure of all these historical facts; again, what is your source? >(I guess > appearing to be pro-incest would have an impact on book sales), > > In more recent times I heard an Australian interview with him where he > had an opportunity to correct the interviewer when he was introduced as > a former member of the NOW national board, but he didn't. For such a > strident anti-feminist he seems more than happy to bask in the > creditability such an association apparently gives him. There's that "anti-feminist" claim again. So here's a little more of the history: in the '70s when people like Karen DeCrow were running NOW, it was much more of an egalitarian organization (and much more liberal); for example, back then they supported a presumption of joint custody after divorce. Not until the early '80s did the Jacobins take it over, accusing the progressives of plotting to restore the monarchy. FC Yahoo! Groups Links --------------------------------- Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/pyIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boysed/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
