[DEBATE] : Re: Rape & the Men on this List

[Peter Waterman]

I am increasingly bored and irritated with Peter Mahlangu, who appears 
on this list only to respond, in a conventional bourgeois liberal 
patriarchal mode, to serious issues raised by those identified with or 
exploring alternatives to such.

Although response to him might conceivably sharpen our own arguments, my 
increasing feeling is that we can better do this amongst ourselves, or 
with conventional bourgeois, liberal, patriarchal people who are capable 
of responding positively rather than simply stonewalling. He should 
really take himself off to some such site as those represented by the 
Oxford Union (a student debating society where performance was more 
important than beliefs or values). In so far as he has clearly abandoned 
any such identities or beliefs that might have been associated with 
liberation struggles, he will do well in his career and probably end up 
as an ambassador, a UN functionary or university vice chancellor (with 
no understanding of vice).

In so far as he has not done this, but prefers to 'epater la 
anti-bourgeoisie'  (provoke the anti-bourgeoisie), I am obliged to 
deploy my personal ultimate defence: blocking him.

Peter W.