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From: vicki@mathcs.emory.edu (Vicki Powers)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: equal rights?
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Date: 31 Aug 90 12:55:49 GMT
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In article <3781@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, tberan@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Tom Beran) writes:
> 
> today they released women and children, the men remained - seems acceptable
> if they released the men (only) two things would have happened:
> 1 - the men would have stayed, they would not abandon thier families         
> 2 - any men that did leave would be ridiculed on the morning news (probably
>     by faith d. or some other perfectly manicured female)
> 
> dire situtations tend to remove most of the social vails (like equality).
> equality (for women) still means (and most men will tell you this):
> 1. if it benifits me, treat me as an equal.
> 2. if it doesn't benifit me, don't treat me as equal - treat be better
> 3. if I'm not equal, but it benifits me - you're obviously discriminating.

I recently saw an interview on public t.v. with a woman who had left with
her son and left her husband behind.  She said the reason she left was so
her (4 year old) son could get out, the decision was a diffucult one and was
one her husband supported.  A friend of theirs who has no children decided to
stay with her husband.

Letting men only go is not a fair comparison - letting men and children go
and not women would be the equivalent.  In this situation I would encourage
my husband and daughter to go and would applaud any man who left with his
children.

Anyway, how could you possibly know what would happen if men only were let
go.  Seems to me it would depend on the family in question.  And in a situation
like this I wouldn't worry what the outside world thought but would do what
was best for my family.

Or were you just trying to stir up controversy?

  Vicki


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