Re: [-empyre-] [empyre] producers and consumers

[Damien Everett <damien.everett@rmit.edu.au>]

Hmmm, Cristiano... perhaps people like you are one of the main reasons 
for the need for CyberFeminism? Perhaps if you actually listened to and 
understood what was being said you would realise that:
	women on the internet feel oppressed by rude and intolerent men such 
as yourself... that they want a space to express themselves and 
ideologies without being dismissed as stupid / irrelevant / a waste of 
time.

Can you appreciate that women are trying to address (heal) the gender 
issues that still exists in our culture... the internet is a great way 
to continue this quest on a global scale... why do you feel the need to 
seek to discredit / discount this? Does your male ego feel threatened 
by this? If you were ever oppressed by the issues woman have faced I'm 
sure you would feel differently...

| Cunt comes from 'priestess', symbol of power that of
course the male society transformed in a sybol of hate
for exactly that reason, restricting its meaning to
the body part. This is history.

Art has a tendency of seeking to shock, sometimes by taking words / 
ideas and turning them upside down / recontextualising them. Words 
don't mean the same thing to different people. Cunt is not a symbol of 
hate, for some it is an object of worship, for others a symbol of crude 
desire, and for others it might be the womb / matrix of all existence 
and experience... it depends where you are coming from. Perhaps you are 
still caught up in 19th century repressive morality? Art is easy to 
misinterpret if you don't have an open mind.

best wishes,
your friendly prick / cock / dick...
d