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From: marla@lucerne.Eng.Sun.COM (Marla Parker)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: men&women: same or different?
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Date: 27 Aug 90 20:47:50 GMT
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In article <90237.095518BOYDJ@QUCDN.BITNET> BOYDJ%QUCDN.QueensU.CA@EVANS.UCAR.EDU (Jeff Boyd) writes:
>Do you *need* a resolution to this question ?  Given an answer, might
>you modify your behaviour in some way ?  I wouldn't mine. No answer
>would change the way I feel I should treat other people. 

The resolution of this question for me is important not to how I
treat people but to how I donate money or cast votes.  I would
not vote for a supposed feminist (male or female) who says things
that imply women are, actually, superior to men and if we women
had been running things the world would be a much nicer, cozier,
nurturing place.  What crap.  The only way to improve the world is
to employ all the brain power on earth and use it to do a lot of
very hard work.

The world *might* be a better place if women had won equal rights
from the beginning instead of at this late date - I'd like to think
so - but this doesn't mean we are somehow better or even special.
Who is subjugated doesn't really matter.  Subjugation itself is
what corrupts life and wastes brain power.


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