Using the provided reading, choose one thing about the reading you disagree with. In other words, explain the authors answer to the argument and then provide an explanation for why you disagree with the author. Be sure to use some quotes from the test. https://lesbianhistorygroup.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/adrienne-rich-women-and-honor.pdf

From a philosophical perspective, one of the most interesting elements of the essay is the author's uniform prohibition against lying. In the history of philosophy, perhaps the strongest case against lying is made by Immanuel Kant, especially in his Critique of Practical Reason and Other Writings. In the section on "On a Supposed Right to Lie from Altruistic Motives," he makes several important points about why lying is always wrong, including one's responsibility for the consequences of lies and the principle of duty. Despite this being one of the more widely discussed philosophical approaches to the problem of lying, Rich does not refer to it.
Especially after the Holocaust, most philosophers countered the Kantian example of "lying to the murderer at the door" with the example of "lying to a Nazi to protect Jews." Rather than engage with the existing philosophical debate, Rich instead uses the vocabulary of self-help to suggest that one who at any point lies about anything becomes "the liar," a figure who is lonely, afraid, and descending into a dark void. She dismisses the possibility of the benevolent lie as follows:

She may say, I didn't want to cause pain. What she really did not want is to have to deal with the other's pain. The lie is a short-cut through another's personality.

The problem here is that it is not supported with examples. We might consider two different cases:

1. Two people are in a long term relationship. Person X is having an affair and not telling person Y about it.
2. Two people are in a long term relationship. Person X spends hours making a homemade cake for person Y. Person Y doesn't like the cake.

Most of us would say that Rich's dramatic language about lying applies to case (1). Although we might be able to debate whether there are a few circumstances in which lying is permissible, most of us would accept Rich's point that in the case of adultery, lying does have a corrosive affect on the liar and the relationship. In case (2), however, telling someone that the cake they spent hours baking tastes awful would strike most of us as acting like a complete jerk, and we would consider lying is a far kinder act. One does not normally, after complementing a bad dessert, sink into a deep abyss of despair and loneliness. After all, one can genuinely appreciate the effort that went into the gesture and be left with memories of a wonderful celebration. Hurting someone's feelings by criticizing the cake would serve no positive end.