From: Erin (macavity11@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Nov 28 2004 - 15:42:49 GMT
Erin wrote:
When a liberal sees a drowning man, he throws him a life preserver, but in
his hurry to find someone else to rescue doesn't bother to tie it off to the
shore, so the drowning man stays afloat but also adrift.
When a conservative sees a drowning man, he ties the life preserver to the
shore half a rope length short of the drowning man, then throws the life
preserver out, requiring the drowning man to participate in his own rescue.
dmb continues:
In this scenario liberals are compassionate and hair-brained, like a loving
but ditzy mom, while conservatives are like tough, character-building
fathers. I think the "story" expresses a fondness for partriarchy and is
more than a little bit misogynistic, but the point is that Lakoff is only
saying something we already know on some level.
ERIN: Umm the joke says a liberal and a conservative. As far as I know there are male and female liberals, male and female conservatives. I think making the liberal into a ditzy mom is what is mysogynistic. Funny I thought of two men in the joke (because a women would have been smart enough to get caught int the political trap and the man would have be saved. hee hee just kidding around)
I have read other Lakoff's stuff before, not that book yet though. I do usually like to hear what he has to say but don't think I agree with attaching genders to polititics, more just black and white bs in a field already dominated by black and white bs.
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