[EXTERNAL] Wolfe & Women

David Stockhoff · 30 Jan 2020, 15:39 · from 2020-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:39:19 -0500
Subject: (urth) [EXTERNAL]  Wolfe & Women
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On January 30, 2020 7:27:04 AM EST, "Norwood, Frederick Hudson" <NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu> wrote:
>In my experience, people who complain about having to be ?politically
>correct? are people who want to say rude things and are really
>complaining about not being allowed to be rude.
>
>Rick
>
>From: Urth [mailto:urth-bounces at lists.urth.net] On Behalf Of Gem
>Caccetta
>Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 2:15 PM
>To: urth at lists.urth.net
>Subject: [EXTERNAL] (urth) Wolfe & Women
>
>
>On Wed Jan 29 2020 Ab de Dos wrote:
>
>"I believe the politically correct accuse Wolfe likewise of being a
>christian misogynist?"
>
>
>
>I know Wolfe?s portrayal of women has been discussed many times on this
>list. I found this tidbit from my recent re-reading of Free Live Free
>interesting:
>
>Free says??You like women, don?t you, Mr. Barnes??
>
>?Like them?? Taken off guard Barnes considered for a moment. ?Not
>really. I want them, and since I can?t have them, usually, I don?t like
>them. But I want them, I suppose you could say that. I admire Madame
>Serpentina.?
>
>
>I wouldn?t be surprised if this was Wolfe?s own attitude toward women
>speaking through Barnes. He could find things to admire in some women,
>but he didn?t really like them. Just my guess, for what it?s worth.
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I see no reason whatsoever to ascribe Barnes' attitude to Wolfe. That's not how authorship works. It's far more likely that the thought occasionally occurred to Wolfe as a question---do I actually like women, or do I merely find them necessary?---and he found it interesting enough to use for building a character's interiority. 
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