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From: dank@tybalt.caltech.edu (Daniel R. Kegel)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: sexist space
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Date: 20 Feb 91 16:16:48 GMT
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stabler@athena.cs.uga.edu (Kathi Mills) writes:
>Speaking of "freedoms of assembly and association, ...
>I believe everyone has the right to exercise the above freedoms, but,
>like most (if not all) freedoms, they are not absolute.
>If a person can prove that s/he is put at a
>serious disadvantage which outweighs the right of an organized group
>to the above freedoms, then the freedoms of the group must be limited.
>Basically, your freedom of association ends where my career begins is
>what I'm saying.

Well said.  I wonder, where do sexist colleges fit in here?
On the one hand, old-boy networks get formed starting in college, so they are 
business related, and can damage the excluded sex.
On the other hand, it has been said that male students tend to dominate 
class discussion at mixed-sex colleges, so mixed-sex colleges could be said
to cause female students damage.

Ack!

- Dan Kegel (dank@moc.jpl.nasa.gov)