tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post7544392697692673655..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: What Makes Karen Owen #&*$?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-74556450084489063252010-10-09T08:32:11.885-07:002010-10-09T08:32:11.885-07:00I have certainly not treated Karen Owen as a crimi...I have certainly not treated Karen Owen as a criminal or evil.<br /><br />I have been saying that her major mistake was indiscretion. In fact, I have been criticized for it.<br /><br />However, thank you, Proud Hindu, for raising an interesting and important issue: why is everyone so shocked to hear about what has been going on for quite some time now?<br /><br />If I had to take a guess, I would say that knowing it is one thing, visualizing it is quite another.<br /><br />Lots of people know that all kinds of strange things are going on in college these days. When they are invited or forced to picture it all, their minds take offense... not so much about what is happening as about the fact that they have been induced to imagine it happening.<br /><br />I don't have an opinion about the state of sexual repression and expression in Hindu cultures, but I would suspect that the culture that gave us the Kama Sutra has a rich erotic tradition.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-56595810524111664012010-10-08T23:08:37.921-07:002010-10-08T23:08:37.921-07:00I'm a bit confused.
Karen Owen is a slut.
Th...I'm a bit confused.<br /><br />Karen Owen is a slut.<br /><br />There are probably millions of men and women in the US like her. Indeed, the culture encourages it.<br /><br />She was also naive enough to send her "dissertation" to a few friends, trusting that they would keep it to themselves. A stupid assumption in the internet age.<br /><br />However slutty she may be, she is not a criminal nor the essence of all evil.<br /><br />If anyone is liable for anything, it would be her friends for making this private thing public.<br /><br />So I don't understand the shock and hate that is being hurled her way on this and other blogs.<br /><br />And keep in mind - I'm a Hindu. We are world reknowned for our sexual chastity and even repression... so if I'm not shocked by all this - how could non-Hindu Americans be?Proud Hindunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-25842632886191366022010-10-08T08:34:37.996-07:002010-10-08T08:34:37.996-07:00Very good point. I had a similar feeling when read...Very good point. I had a similar feeling when reading her. She even seems to suggest as much, almost as though she admires Owen for having done something that she would have wanted to do. <br /><br />Strangely, she seems to believe that she would feel better if she had had Owen's courage.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-16310040289500013202010-10-08T08:02:10.455-07:002010-10-08T08:02:10.455-07:00As I read her column, I felt an ambivalence in Pet...As I read her column, I felt an ambivalence in Petri's words. It's as if she wants to believe that Owens is "writing her own narrative", but can't quite commit to it. She also kept saying how funny Owen is; which is simply not true. It makes me think that perhaps Petri would like to rewrite scenes from her own past, but feels the truth too deeply to carry it out.Cane Caldohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05086160238694226488noreply@blogger.com