[lit-ideas] Re: Don't Stand So Close to Me
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:15:21 -0600
Just to reassure Omar that I'm not a extraterrestrial, I recognized the
refrain. The Police has been a must with me from "Roxanne" forward. My
comments were referring to the accomanying poem -- I liked it and thought the
use of the refrain clever. But if, as you now tell us, the student was a
college student, then the reference to Lolita doesn't seem very apropos.
As to Andy's comments:
> Not inexperienced is sometimes known as sexual abuse of children,
It's also sometimes (and far more commonly) known as "not inexperienced". I
dare say most college age women have some experience with sexual pleasure. A
sin, I know. And get this, not all children are sexually abused. I know it
will come as a shock to Andy, who has never raised a child, but in fact most
children are not sexually abused.
> Psychohistorically it's suggested that countries have "maturity levels".
Suggested by whom? Do you seriously believe that China lacks maturity?
> Clearly those who need disparities and power differentials in marriages are
> not at the high end of maturity.
Clearly? I envy Andy the clarity of his thinking.
Mike Geary
through a glass darkly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 9:25 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Don't Stand So Close to Me
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Jan 27, 2007 8:03 PM
>>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Don't Stand So Close to Me
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>>Actually it's an old song by Police, Mike, but there
>>is more. We are talking college and the student is not
>>quite so young. Also, we are talking Beijing, China,
>>and the student turns out not to be as naive and
>>inexperienced as the teacher had believed. O.K.
>>
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> Not inexperienced is sometimes known as sexual abuse of children, especially
> in a country that historically was not adverse to selling children into
> slavery, including sex slavery. Marriages in a lot of the developing world
> are basically reenactments of parent-child relationships with the man having
> all the power (parent) and the wife having none (child). Large age
> discrepancies between partners are common in the developing and third world.
> I stand by my statements that she wants a father figure and he can't relate
> to someone his own age so he "falls in love" with someone safe.
> Psychohistorically it's suggested that countries have "maturity levels".
> Clearly those who need disparities and power differentials in marriages are
> not at the high end of maturity.
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