Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ora!ambar From: igor!rutabaga!jls@uunet.uu.net (Jim Showalter) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Why I Am Not a Feminist Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 91 17:42:43 GMT References: <2805efd1.34d0@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> Sender: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) Organization: O'Reilly and Associates Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 37 Approved: ambar@ora.com > "[I]f the professional rapist is to be separated from the > average dominant [male] heterosexual, it may be mainly a > quantitative difference." >Think about the implications of that one for a minute. That the >difference between a heterosexual man and a rapist is only one of >degree. Yeah--this is as bigoted and sexist a bunch of crap as I've ever heard. Would a man be able to get away with: "[I]f the professional housewife is to be separated from the average [female] heterosexual, it may be mainly a quantitative difference." or "[I]f the professional killer is to be separated from the average black man, it may be mainly a quantitative difference." Last time I looked, statements like this could get you thrown out of a university. Except the original--WHICH IS TAUGHT TO INCOMING STUDENTS. >Now regardless of what Norman Mailer may or may not have been charged >with, doesn't it look to you like Robin Morgan is trying awfully hard >to justify what was really an attempt at cold-blooded murder -- what >she puts in derisive quotes as "`attempted murder'." Yeah, well--when a woman cuts up a man with a knife, that's okey dokey. If a man cuts up a woman with a knife it is More Evidence That All Men Are Creeps and Rapists and Murderers. Call me a silly idealist, but I thought the idea was equality for all. -- * The opinions expressed herein are my own, except in the realm of software * * engineering, in which case I borrowed them from incredibly smart people. * * * * Rational: cutting-edge software engineering technology and services. *