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June 25, 2005
Plagiarism & sex
A few years ago I published a piece ("Sexuality, Textuality") in CE about the ways in which the metaphors for describing plagiarism overlap with those for describing sexual transgressions. One of MLK's biographers, for example, wrote some really reprehensible stuff that conflates his textual and sexual promiscuities.
I'm reminded of that again as I read this piece from the Lakeland FL Ledger—not because it uses sexual metaphors but because it's yet another datum in my claim that the accusation of plagiarism is often political (in the various senses of that word). In this particular case, moreover, I could just as easily read this as an accusation that the guy once patronized whores or cheated on his wife.
Posted by senioritis at June 25, 2005 05:42 PM