Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!ucla-cs!uci-ics!bellcore!att!cbnews!jrl From: wasatch!cs.utah.edu!cbnews.ATT.COM!jrl@cs.utexas.EDU (john.lupien) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Can a man be a feminist? Message-ID: <17738@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 13 Jun 89 22:41:02 GMT Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu Reply-To: "john.lupien" Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 36 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu In article <5988@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> julian!watdcsu.waterloo.edu!bmaraldo@watmath.waterloo.edu (Commander Brett Maraldo) writes: >In article <8906080054.AA08193@joey.cs.Buffalo.EDU> ugeileen@cs.Buffalo.EDU writes: >Why are those of us with undistorted unoppressive attitudes not heard >by the masses. (?) [other rhetorical questions deleted] >Instead we are still loosing the battle of oppression vs. humanity. >Brett L maraldo Oppression is the major tool currently in use for maintenance and enforcement of the status quo. The only way to not be oppressed is to stand against oppression - if you run and hide, you have lost your rights by abandonment. Taking a stand has its own price - ask the students in Beijing (the ones still living). You must pay this price or lose your freedom. Don't think that you have not been heard when you take a stand for the rights you know are yours - the world hears you, and your cause will win in the end. There is every chance that you will not yourself have the opportunity to reap the benefits your efforts may realize. "Jane Roe" had her baby, and gave it up for adoption, but her voice was heard, and today we must continue her fight. Don't forget that the oppressors never rest - they want power, and they will take it when they can. They have no power unless we give it to them by default. The price of laziness or indifference is not only your own freedom, but that of others who need your efforts to support their own. Keep fighting for humanity, and show the world that oppression is inhuman. John Lupien jrl@mvuxr.att.com -- "A man gazing at the stars is | ARPA: tittle@glacier.ics.uci.edu proverbially at the mercy of | UUCP: {sdcsvax|ucbvax}!ucivax!tittle the puddles in the road." | BITNET: cltittle@uci.bitnet --Alexander Smith | USnail: PO Box 4188, Irvine CA, 92716