A Charitable View of Mary Daily

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A Charitable View of Mary Daily
A. E. Brain
By Zoe Brain
10 January, 2010


http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/01/charitable-view-of-mary-daily.html


Mary Daly, one of the most notable Feminist Philosophers, died recently. Some quotes from her works:

    "The Dionysian solution for women, which is violation of our own Hag-ocratic boundaries, is The Final Solution."

    "Dionysus sometimes assumed a girl-like form. The phenomenon of the drag queen dramatically demonstrates such boundary violation. Like whites playing "black face," he incorporates the oppressed role without being incorporated in it. In the phenomenon of transsexualism, the incorporation/confusion is deeper. As ethicist Janice Raymond has pointed out, the majority of transsexuals are "male to female," while transsexed females basically function as tokens, and are used by the rulers of the transsexual empire to hide the real nature of the game. In transsexualism, males put on "female" bodies (which are in fact pseudofemale)."