Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!visix!news From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous? Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 90 20:27:45 GMT References: <1990Oct24.175532.9407@pmafire.UUCP> <1990Oct25.140829.19268@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <58695@microsoft.UUCP> <1315@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Sender: news@visix.com Reply-To: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 29 In article <1315@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>, pepke@ds1.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes: > When was the last time you heard men recieve the credit for public > sanitation, anesthesia, vaccinations, contraception, civil liberties? History classes, from elementary school through college; TV specials and retrospectives; newspapers; historical novels; etc. > An awful lot of feminist rhetoric amounts to a tunnel-vision of history, Some of it does, but I do not agree that "an awful lot" of it does. Even at its worst, too, it's not any more so than mainstream history. The posting I followed up said that male dominance was a myth. This very much contradicts my experience. In this culture (and throughout most of recorded history), men have been consistently rewarded for asserting dominance over women (and each other), and women have been punished for asserting dominance over men. I am not saying that this is "good" for either men or women, and I am not certainly not saying that dominance has been the only force which has shaped our society and culture. However, it is an important one, and asserting that it either does not exist or is irrelevant is silly at best, and oppressive at worst. -- Amanda Walker Visix Software Inc. -- The X WIndow System: The cutting edge of obsolescence.