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From: falk@Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Western Feminism Sounds More Like Antifeminism
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Date: 22 Aug 90 04:37:35 GMT
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In article <141003@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> marla@lucerne.Eng.Sun.COM (Marla Parker) writes:
>
>The quoted statement above, that we are all human beings first, men
>and women second, is as important, absurd, and essential to civil
>liberties as the statement that "all men are created equally".  Anyone
>can see that all men are most certainly NOT created equally, yet
>it is necessary to treat them all as if they are in fact equal because
>we are incapable of divinely judging the "worth" of one man vs. another,
>and because it would be morally reprehensible to even try.  We are
>not in fact all equal, but we should guarantee an equal chance, i.e.
>equal rights, to all.  

I read an interesting variant on that statement once: "All people are
created differently.  It is the duty of society to make sure everybody
has an equal chance to rise or sink to their own level" (or something
along those lines.)

	-ed falk, sun microsystems -- sun!falk, falk@sun.com
	"What are politicians going to tell people when the
	Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?"
			-- William Simpson, A.C.L.U.