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[SOCIOBIO] Happy PC Holidays
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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 22:25:24 -0800
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From: Patricia Hausman <[email protected]>
Subject: [SOCIOBIO] Happy PC Holidays
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Greetings all,
Found this on the Internet, and thought it might bring some comic relief
to our discussions of late.
A very happy holiday season to all of you,
My best,
PATRICIA HAUSMAN
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>
> Political Correctness gone too far...
>
> The 12 Days of Christmas, Deconstructed
>
> On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my
> potential-acquaintance-rape-survivor gave to me:
>
> * TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual
> drumming.
>
> * ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of
> members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called
> for in their union contract even though they will not be asked to
> play a note...)
>
> * TEN melanin-deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the
> patriarchal ruling class system leaping,
>
> * NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression,
>
> * EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing
> milk-products from enslaved Bovine-Europeans,
>
> * SEVEN endangered swans swimming on protected wetlands,
>
> * SIX enslaved fowl-Europeans producing stolen nonhuman animal
> products,
>
> * FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic
> incarceration,
>
> NOTE: after member of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to
> throw red paint at my computer, the calling birds, French hens
> and partridge have been reintroduced to their native habitat. To
> avoid further animal-European enslavement, the remaining gift
> package has been revised.
>
> * FOUR hours of recorded whale songs,
>
> * THREE deconstructionist poets,
>
> * TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed tree
> carcasses
>
> * And an Animal Rights activist chained to an old-growth pear tree.
>
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