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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Gender?  Do we need it?
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Date: 15 Nov 89 01:44:43 GMT
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kenm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (...Jose) writes:
>Unless some spectacular medical advances are made, the fact remains that only
>women have babies, only men can cause the fertilization of the ova.... ie,
>there is a good reason for being able to tell male from female, young from
>old, etc.

I am always mystified by statements such as this.  Do you really fertilize the
ova of everyone you meet on the street?  Not merely have sex with everyone you
meet, but in fact impregnate them?  If not, then why do you need to know if
they are female or male?

ajr