From: Penberriss Wendy S. penberriss@yahoo.com
KNOCK KNOCK
Who's there? Wendy. Wendy who? Wendy Scussion-of-Deliverance-is-finished-can-we-move-on-to-another-episode? No. Bog off.
There's a handsome wolf at the door. Let him in and he will take away everything, including your reason for living, and then leave you to die.
Really? Wouldn't have happened to you lately, by any chance?
Deliverance is not sexist-- it is not imperialist-- it is not misogynistic-- it's a test. Only the victim will find excuses and fight to open the door and let the wolf in. Even when the truth is spelt out to them.
The truth is that there is no authenticated account of a wolf attacking a human being. There are plenty of authenticated accounts (with photographic evidence and physical remains - pelts and stuff) of human beings attacking and killing wolves on the basis of little more than outright speciesism (a far worse ism, in my book, than sexism, imperialism and even misogynism). Equating wolves with human villainy is all part of this pernicious prejudice and I have no time for it.
THINK.... WHICH ARE YOU-- WOLF OR SHEEP?
I see myself more as a goat, actually. When I'm not being a hedgehog.
Or an iguana.
Neil
So many creatures, so little time.