Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: pepke@ds1.scri.fsu.EDU (Eric Pepke) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Power economics, genders, and the status quo Message-ID: <1948@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 18 Jan 91 15:46:41 GMT References: <#}W^KZ&@rpi.edu> <9101072114.AA06178@rutgers.edu> <15415@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1920@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> <9101172247.AA22320@rutgers.edu> Organization: Florida State University, but I don't speak for them Lines: 40 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: blanche.ics.uci.edu In article <9101172247.AA22320@rutgers.edu> jdravk@speech2.cs.cmu.edu (Jeanette Dravk) writes: >In article <1920@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> pepke@ds1.scri.fsu.EDU (Eric Pepke) writes: >>No information on the Boy Scouts, but as far as I know the Explorers >>have always been co-ed. The Medical Explorer group to which I >>belonged in the mid seventies certainly was. The fact that we were >>co-ed and the rest of the scouts were not gave us a pleasantly smug >>feeling of superiority. > >Hmmm. This came up in some private mail as well as I believe I >mentioned it in another post ... so, what exactly do these groups do >to avoid any problems with the respective gender's newly forming >sexual identities in a mixed group. What is this supposed to mean? We all got together and had meetings in the hospital and talked about medical things and invited speakers and stuff like that. We didn't spend a whole hell of a lot of time worrying about "sexual identities" and "the respective gender" and things like that. So sue us. Perhaps had we had the misfortune of being led by a psychologist or a polemicist we would have had to worry about these things, but we managed to escape that, so we did not bother. We had fun instead. >That is to say, do they have any >problems with co-eds and sexuality? No. What's the point? Honestly, until I saw your response, the idea of having "problems" with such a thing did not even enter my head. >that's part of it. Why this should be so, I'm not sure, but I would >like to know how these co-ed groups deal with that aspect, if at all. Maybe it's like taking a Moslem perspective to a group and asking, "How do you deal with the Great Flaming Sword of Allah?" Perhaps it is not an issue for them until you bring it up. -EMP