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> On Mar 3, 2019, at 10:13 PM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good piece by Ann Menasche against the erasure of lesbians: Or, on another view, an awful one. The thuggery Menasche describes is repugnant and deserves condemnation; that should go without saying. But if she wants that anecdote to have the discursive force she clearly intends, she would need to offer evidence of left formations attempting to justify that violence. I suspect the reason she doesn’t provide any such evidence is that she honestly doesn’t feel any need to, and I can fully understand the feeling, but I also suspect that she wouldn’t find any even if she looked, because although there’s plenty of "mass insanity on the left,” there’s exceedingly little tolerance for physical attacks against lesbians by anyone (as indeed there should not be). But Menasche also pays absolutely no attention to the very well documented violence against transwomen, nor even to the also very well documented and extraordinarily brutal violence against lesbians in countries like South Africa. Such silences speak volumes about what the author sees and fails to see — as indeed does Philip’s excrutiatingly inept introduction of the term “erasure,” which the author does not use. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
