Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bloom-beacon!ora!ambar From: keith@pawl.rpi.edu (Keith D. Weiner) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Advocacy and What Is Advocated Message-ID: <1989Oct4.212246.8332@rpi.edu> Date: 4 Oct 89 21:22:46 GMT References: <8910041915.AA05706@mimsy.UMD.EDU> Sender: ambar@ora.ora.com Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 6 Approved: ambar@ora.com "I see no reason to yield to a more privileged woman merely based on her gender...as I would yield to someone less fortunate than I..." In other words people have rights in inverse proportion to how "fortunate" (wealthy? talented?) they are? This seems to stem from the ideology of "egalitarianism", i.e, the hating of the good for being the good.