Hillary changes color again

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Well, again...it's known that she's my favorite candidate so I'm partial but you seem to be throwing a lot of mud against a wall hoping some of it sticks...a couple of your comments: she was going to be dumped on no matter what she did in regards to her marriage, her feminist base was very critical of her yet she stayed with Bill...I respect that, but in the end that's a personal matter and really has no place in the political venue. Regarding her college writings....so what? I wrote some rather entertaining things while in college, in many cases...I feel differently now. Hillary is my age so I can relate to the timeframe, the times in which we grew up etc.

So true. If people read some of the things I wrote in college, they'd think I was crazy, and that was only two years ago this month that I graduated.

Funny you bring it up, because I was just clearing out my "my documents" folder on my computer and came across a paper I wrote as my final thesis in one of my English classes during my senior year.

The premise is shocking. I took a quote from a book of academic essays called "Reading Rape," from Mieke Bal who said rape cannot be visualized not only because ‘decent’ culture would not tolerate such representations of the ‘act’ but because rape makes the victim invisible. It does that literally first—the perpetrator ‘covers’ her—and then figuratively—the rape destroys her self-image, her subjectivity, which is temporarily narcotized, defi-nitely changed and often destroyed.

I then took The Piano Teacher and argued that rape made the lady in the novel a person for the very first time. That it in fact, created her individuality and made her visible, instead of removing it and rendering her invisible.

How well would that go over with feminists were I to run for office? So, certainly college writings don't reflect the way I really see the act of rape, it was a critical position I took and defended in front of a bunch of angry feminist Portlanders