--- Maru Dubshinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Clearly what we have here is a rather progressive
> youngster, a shining
> example of the further march of liberty: this
> wimmin, or persun, is
> advocating that toilet paper be liberated from its
> constricted role of
> cleaning our bottoms. They hold with Freud that this
> fixation on the
> anus is infantilizing, and retarding of progress
> integrating the self;
> in short blocking personal growth.  Thusly, we must
> change the "role"
> which toilet paper plays to clean other areas, such
> as the nostrils,
> or the mouth, other bodily orifices.  I dare say
> that in this cry for
> progress we can see a covert dialectic, leading to a
> synthesis of the
> negative, or "shadow" aspects of the whole
> metemphysical nature of
> toilet paper: what could be more subversive than
> turning an item that
> is meant to clean, and tragically, be immediately
> disposed of into a
> representation of the Great Mother that the
> patriarchal Western
> scientific society has repressed and demonized than
> by into the
> embodiment of its enemy, waste, and permament waste
> at that?
> 
> ~Maru

Frighteningly enough, it wasn't entirely clear to me
that this was a satire the first time I read it...

Gautam Mukunda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Freedom is not free"
http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com

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