Emaciation as a Fashion (was Re: irrational (feminist)calculations)

2000-08-01 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
From Christian to Ricardo: >This is too complicated for them to follow; oh, I forgot, they are >marxists, so probably they do have a formula for you specifying >what's the correct political line that you should follow. I am sure >that even some gays would agree with me - those who are proud

Re: Emaciation as a Fashion (was Re: irrational(feminist) calculations)

2000-08-01 Thread Doug Henwood
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >1. The bourgeoisie propagated a moral ideal of Self-Control that >legitimated their existence as distinct from & superior to >aristocrats, proletarians, & pre-capitalist "primitives," all of >whom were portrayed as "lazy, dissolute, & improvident." The bodily >expre

Re: Emaciation as a Fashion (was Re: irrational (feminist)calculations)

2000-08-01 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>1. The bourgeoisie propagated a moral ideal of Self-Control that >>legitimated their existence as distinct from & superior to >>aristocrats, proletarians, & pre-capitalist "primitives," all of >>whom were portrayed as "lazy, dissolute, & improvident." The >>bodil

Re: Re: Emaciation as a Fashion (was Re: irrational(feminist)calculations)

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Perelman
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Bourgeois males used to be able to merely possess slender beauties; > now they must also aspire to become slender beauties as well if they > can (reflecting _changes in ideological emphasis_ from possession to > performance, from vertical integration to lean & mean sub

Re: Re: Emaciation as a Fashion (was Re: irrational (feminist) calculations)

2000-08-02 Thread Jim Devine
At 12:25 AM 08/02/2000 -0400, you wrote: >(With his fondness for basketball, I'd imagine our dear moderator should >look pretty good!) I'd say that Michael looks a lot like Fred Engels (the guy who teamed up with one of the Marx brothers to start vaudeville back in the 19th century). Jim Devin