Hi Michael, My reading of her article was that Christina Hoff Sommers' wanted to highlight the hypocrisy involved in allowing the V but not the P.
I guess you can't have one without the other... Cheers, VP ---------------------------------------------- Michael Flood wrote: > Sommers seems to have two concerns, one about the sexual explicitness or > 'vulgarity' of these events and performances, and another about the V-day > play as anti-male. But she does not really identify how this stuff is > anti-male. I'm assuming that she is simply assuming that any focused > examination of men's violence against women is necessarily anti-male. I'd > disagree. It's entirely possible to conduct such an examination, whether in a > play or otherwise, while continuing to believe that most men are not violent, > that most men treat women with love and respect, that all men have this > potential, and that men do not have a monopoly on violent behaviour. > > Regards, > > michael flood. > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/pkgkPB/SOnJAA/Zx0JAA/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/
