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From: adam@castle.edinburgh.ac.UK (Adam Hamilton)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Feminism in the Craft
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Date: 9 Nov 89 04:13:41 GMT
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In article <8911070310.AA06802@mimsy.UMD.EDU> mangoe@cs.UMD.EDU (Charley Wingate) writes:
>Steve Bloch writes:
>
>>[...]straight men have something "better": powerful, established religions
>>and social structures that tell them they're wonderful.
>
>Social structures, maybe.  But religions?  Which religions?  This seems like
>an overgeneralization.

	How about Judaism where men thank god every day that they were not
made a woman.  Or Islam, where the testimony of 1 man is considered equal
in court to the testimony of 2 women.  Or both of those and Christianity
where women are debarred from the priesthood.