Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!ora!daemon From: avery@well.uucp (Avery Ray Colter) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Is Affirmative Action Sexist? Message-ID: <14313@well.UUCP> Date: 28 Oct 89 01:55:31 GMT References: <8910200344.AA29498@uunet.uu.net> <8910211004.aa13629@ICS.UCI.EDU> Sender: ambar@ora.ora.com Lines: 27 Approved: ambar@ora.com angie@iuvax.cs.indiana.EDU (angela allen) writes: >Please notice that you are defining women in terms of men, retaining >men as the focus, the norm, and the yardstick of all the rest of us. >If this is what you meant, that is your business. If not, I suggest >that next time you might say: >In other words, women and men are merely somewhat differently shaped >bodies... >If, on the other hand, the genders really are different in some >essential way... A thought to ponder........ Is "woman" a linguistic extension of "man"? Or is "man" a linguistic contraction of "woman"? Or, does it really matter in the end? Other than the size of the end that is . -- Avery Ray Colter (415) 451-7786 | Now, class, repeat after me: {apple|ucbvax|pacbell}!well!avery | ICH LIEBE DIE BELEIBTEN LEIBEN, avery@well.sf.ca.us | UND HUPFENDE HUEFTE HABE ICH GERN!