How come Crunchy Con never gets letters like this one to the New Yorker, from a reader who didn't like lesbian writer Ariel Levy's recent piece on the history of radical lesbian separatism?:
I am a radical lesbian and a separatist witch--a more frightening spectre the patriarchy has not seen--and I am here to tell you that there is nothing to laugh about in the ongoing war against women ("Lesbian Nation," by Ariel Levy, March 2nd). If you are a non-believer, just tune in one night to prime-time television--streaming up close and in full color into uncountable American homes--and you will see that the onslaught is ongoing, with no sign of letting up. Where is a story--just one--of the agonizing and deeply radical passions we experience and express in our struggles of heart, mind, and soul to "dismantle the Master's house," as our own poet laureate Audre Lorde has so eloquently put it? Clearly, such a story will never be palatable to the mainstream press--the "Master's tools"--out, visible lesbians in pop culture notwithstanding. Annie Long Asheville, N.C.
The joke just kind of writes itself, doesn't it? Still, if she's got her own little Benedict Option going, good for her. I bet it's as humor-free as Pyongyang, tho'...
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To answer Rod's question, probably because he doesn't write articles like the original one (Subscription required but the New Yorker is well worth it IMO).
Some writers above have pointed out that both home-schooling Christians and lesbian separatist witches both have rejection of mainstream society at their core.
The difference between the two is that the Christians believe they can remake the society in their own image. The radical lesbians in the article (and like the letter writer) understand that they are a minority and a small one at that. That prompts the initial complete drop-out from society.
The interesting part is how the "intentional community" failed (hint: it has nothing to do with a lack of procreation) and how one of the main subjects has made a very tentative rapprochement with the wider society. Very interesting reading. Perhaps even a lesson or two for others considering "dropping out" and running off to Costa Rica or wherever.
Van Helsing
March 22, 2009 2:57 PM
Perhaps we should (anti)christen a term -- "The Broom-Hilda Option" -- and urge it upon Jillian, Sigaliris, Celtic Dragon, Insane Kitten, et al.
I'm laughing myself to death. :!
In any event, I am neither a "separatist", nor a Wiccan. I do not overly concern myself with the various abuses of patriarchal males. Since I am hungry, however, I am looking for somebody who has meddled in draconic affairs and thereby needs to be flame broiled and devoured.
Do you taste good with ketchup?
What's interesting about these women is that they often openly say that they chose to be lesbians for the sake of female empowerment and dismantling patriarchy and all of the usual crap. I knew one woman like this quite well at the time....we became nasty enemies soon enough. She was a reconstructionist Jew who later married a man not long after she graduated.
When the revolution happens all men will either be pets or dead.
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