Subject: Re: Is Twin Peaks anti-woman? Are Twin Peaks fans? From: kaufman@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) Date: 1990-11-14, 13:15 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <17256@shlump.nac.dec.com> boyajian@ruby.dec.com (Cisco's Buddy) writes: > >I disagree. If a man wants to screw anything that moves, people think its > >natural -- "He's just sowing his wild oats." A lot of people say this, but I don't buy it. I can think of many examples of this sort of character in moives and books and I can't think of a single recent one where it is considered positive behavior. When guys stand on the street corner wistling at every woman that walks by, we don't say there are sowing their oats, we say they are assholes. > >So she wants to do it on the floor with James? So what? On the floor? In a Jail? Through the bars? When anyone could just walk in? None of thes things seem a little strange to you? I don't know, maybe we have a different idea of what constitutes weird sexual behavior. > >} Just as, if James had made this suggestion to Donna we would call him > >} (oh, I don't know), an asshole. > >Yeah, but no one would think he was deviant because of it. Sure we would. Well, maybe not devient. But I never said that. My point is that we would not view what he was doing as a positive thing, just as some of us don't consider Donna's behavior as a positive thing. Michael Michael Kaufman | I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships kaufman | on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter @eecs.nwu.edu | in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All these moments will | be lost in time - like tears in rain. Time to die.