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Poison Pen
Strikes
Again!

_Dear Editor
RE: Ian Lorenz, Poison Pen,
Feb. 21, 1996

Puh-leeze, Mr. Lorenz!
Your blatant admission of
sexual handicap would have
been an insulting articlehad
it not been such a pathetic
display of one males
impotence.

You just don’t get it, do
you? Maybe the reason you
are so often a target of
mockery & contempt is your
shallow, ignorant and

‘overtheedge 6 March, 1996

LETTERS TO |

despicable way of taking a
generalization and
expanding upon it using only
the lonely-college-boy-who-
can’t-get-laid logic you seem
to prefer in so many of your
articles.

It scares me to think that
some female is going to read
your article and think, “Yay!
This must be what boys
want! This is how to act
when I want them to like me,
and this is how I’m supposed
to be to seem sexy...”. You
have taken two stereotypical
(albeit, present) “female
traits” and instead of
intelligently examining them
as the defense mechanisms
they so often are, or even
expaning on why a woman
may act like a “bitch” or a
“goddess”, you took the easy
and self-indulgent way out.

I guess it would be
redundant to chastise your
inability to relate to women,
so instead Ill help you out a
little. First of all, let’s get
rid of the out-dated christian
Eve/bitch, Mary/goddess
thing, maybe you're fixated
on inaccurate biblical
ideology, maybe you listen
to a lot of Maddonna, maybe
priest once touched your no-
spot; I really don’t know.
But enough already, we are
all aware of the cliches.

A “Goddess” is not sweet,
she is that part of a woman
who knows who she is and

SHE is the one who loves.
‘herself best. It is she (that

part of the she) and not the

“Bitch” that is selfish, she

indulges in a righteous
selfishness, a self-love that is
the core of her being and
ability to love another. Her
love is not unconditional,
that she would be expected
to love someone continually
because of some initial

Fn EDITOR

attraction should she no
longer feel it is nauseating
and destructive. Altruism is
not a concept one should
readily apply to inter-
personal relationships.
And, Mr. Lorenz, a
“Goddess” fucks. Hate to
break it to ya, but if you
actually think there’s a

“woman out there who’s only

into pleasing her man, you
obviously believe everything
you've read in your mail-
order-bride catalog.
Between the “Goddess” and
the “Bitch”, it’s more the
“Goddess” part that can get
super-sexual, she is the part

_of woman that is unafraid of

that fine line.

Your “Bitch” heads into
the bathroom with a dildo
“after you have given all
you had.”? C’mon Lorenz,
are you really blaming her
for your lack of a certain
skill? “She will always love
her toy more than you.” And
more power to her (no pun
intended!) For not being
ashamed to give herself what
you, Ian Lorenz, are unable
to provide (or were you
speaking theoretically, Ha,
Ha).

The goddess/bitch themes
are only two parts of the

female persona and your
little trip down male-fallacy
lane has provided the “Over
The Edge” reading public
with no new information
except for that you cannot
please a woman. Because
you are weak and lacking in
virility you are unable to
understand that female
which is strong, forthright
and unafraid. The only thing
you have ever aroused is the
shame many men feel for
their gender when they read
your articles.

Bitch, goddess, sister,
daughter, madonna, whore,
lover, gal, dame, hen, biddy,
chick, squaw, toots, skist,
broad, babe, rib, mistress,
doll, minx, wench,

suffragette; well, whatever I
am, I still remain

Yours Truly,

Andrea Lebl, Diva

Distortions

Distortions:

that’s what’s so

wrong with the world.
It’s not that we’re all
Stupid, we’re just looking
Through frosted glass
which distorts

Our perception.

Rather than leaving it,
accepting that we can’t
understand if we don’t knov
The whole story,

we make something up.
It’s our own distorted
minds that create

Our confusion, because
in reality, the truth is
Never absent; we could
See it if we’d only open
the window.

—AJ O’Brien

Correction:

As of February 22nd, I was made
aware that it was in fact the
Forest Society of UNBC, not
the Forestry Department that
presented Dr. Patrick Moore in
what was to be a “conversation
about clearcuts”’. My apologies
to the Forest Society for the
mixup—and thank you to Grant
Jor the clarification.

- Bryn White

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