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

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 Devine

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 expression

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 bodily expression