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From: marla@lucerne.Eng.Sun.COM (Marla Parker)
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Subject: Re: equal rights?
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Date: 13 Sep 90 00:10:18 GMT
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I did not mean to criticize the women who are leaving
Kuwait so much as the media and society at large
for perpetuating the image of women as dependent creatures
equivalent to children and men as somehow less valuable.

Also, it is silly for us to say "well if it were me, I'd
do such and such," because we're sitting safe over here
at our workstations and it isn't us...but nonetheless,
*theoretically*, if it were me and there were no children
to rescue,  I wouldn't go in to the embassy for an exit
visa at the price of turning my male partner in.  


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Marla Parker		(415) 336-2538
marla@eng.sun.com