dear rajeender i am not at all singling you out for criticism. we all use sexual and sexist terminology without thinking. and u r right that "fucking" is a very common intensifier. but let us analyse why that is. is it not because our religious baggage taught us how bad sex (specially when indulged by females) was. so jesus had to be born without the act. so monks and nuns cant have any. so brahmacharis are respected. so the purdah in so many religions. so even gandhi made women shave their heads in his ashram lest they "tempt" the men.
marx is not particularly good in this respect either. he had a child in secret with his maid servant and never acknowledged this publicly. it is a malaise deeper than we know. best, anand On 6/3/07, rajeender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My wrong is obvious. The fact is that I haven't thought about the need > for a substitution until now. A beautiful word it is in instances > where Marx called money "the universal whore" after Shakespeare or > Lenin calling science a whore that serves any. (Marx also called money > the universal pimp.) > I doubt if swearing words are essentially sexist. They cut both ways, > don't they, as in the case of pimp? I could have said "pimping Kerala > through government websites". > Curse words are not necessarily sexual, I can assure you. Fucking is > not always bad. "Fucking good" is also there. As a very common > intensifier "fucking" doesn't carry much sex about it. > > On Jun 3, 5:44 am, "anand patwardhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala run by Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
