Mary Daly

Points of Identification with her life:

•Thought before she was born—David and the Psalm ? (abortion)

•Religion Institutional Experiences

•Paul Tillich

•Misogamy of Christianity

•Sonja was denied recognition

Nature of the World

Foreground and Background:1. Foreground—misogynistic2. Background—women move beyond, state of Be-ing3. Foreground Examples

• Catholicism and Christianity-derivative status• Story of Adam and Eve• Mary kneeling before her own son• Other Cultures:

• Indian suttee• Chinese foot binding• African genital mutilation• European witch burning• American gynecology• husbands funeral pyres

More Nature of the World

Background Comments and Examples:

•Realm of Wild Reality—where animate beings connect

•In opposition to the Foreground

•Ethic of biophilia

•Biophilic Pure Lust

More Nature of the World

Definition of Feminism:

•An ontological orientation

•Exposes Oppression •Open up consciousness to active participation in Movement, Transcendence, and Happiness

•Feminism is a means to the Be-ing in the Background

•Plastic Feminism: What about Patriarchy's reaction?

Nature of the Rhetor

Foreground:Controlling and bullying women in to submission•Snools—legitimizing bore-ocracy and cast of characters

•Fixers : “continually aim to freeze life”•Plug-uglies-exs: Rapists, pimps wife-beaters, hatchet-men like physicans and surgeons, scientists, military experts•Wantwits—lack the “qualities of sense and intelligence, foolocracy

Background:•Traveling Companions or Lusty Spirits that voyage along and Name be-ing•Names of Lusty Beings—Hags, Crones, Spinster, Fates, Gnomes, Salamanders, Scolds, Shrews, Soothsayers, Virgins, Websters

More About Names of Lusty Beings

Salamanders—mythical and not clearly defined animal having the power to endure fire with out harm

Application Questions:

Is scholarly, legal, medical, governmental terminology any different? Any Examples? What about acronyms?

Adolph Eichmann, Hannah Arendt and “Eichmann of Jerusalem”

Rhetorical OptionsIn the Foreground:

•Ritualistic Violence toward Women: patterns over the years— Suttie•Silencing and Erasing Women’s Voices: “pseudo generic” terms doctors and their wives•Fixing Women's Images: Cosmo Girls, Playboy bunnies•Refusing to See the Problem: there are bigger problems like pollution—yet is there a connection?•Reversal: Adam’s rib makes him the first mother•Elementary Terms:

•Mummies—perpetuate old like civilization or mystery•Dummies—copy like plant for nuclear power plant•Anti-bodies—removed from nature of thing like saint for “satellite Interceptor

Rhetorical Options

In the Background: a continual battle exists between foreground and background

•Metaphor: a new logic•Redefinition: spinster--women who can spin•Capitalization: adds emphasis for background words•Spelling/Be-Spelling: to the change the shape like gynecology for Gyn/Ecology•Grammar/Sin-Tactics: questions the authority of that word order dictates•Pronunciation: denouncing, pronouncing, and announcing•Spooking, Sparking, and Spinning•Be-Laughing: to nix, veto

Transformation of Rhetorical Theory

•Exigence—several at once in any situation

•Realm for Rhetoric—background is a vital site

•Rhetor—nonhuman entities

•Audience Adaptation—to move the wrong way