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Thread #87629   Message #3036331
Posted By: Joe_F
19-Nov-10 - 06:43 PM
Thread Name: Happy! – Dec 30 (Kipling born 30 Dec 1865)
Subject: RE: Happy! – Dec 30 (Kipling born 30 Dec 1865)
Against the misogyny in "The Betrothed" & "The Female of the Species", one might weigh the sympathy in "Mary, Pity Women!". And as to racism, note his remarkable poem "Our Mother-Lodge", in praise of the racially & religiously mixed Freemasons in India.

Note also "Jobson's Amen". No-one who hates missionaries can be all bad. %^)