Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: gannon@MDI.COM (Alden Gannon) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Sexism vs. Men's Oppression Message-ID: <1991May29.183550.484@MDI.COM> Date: 29 May 91 21:28:07 GMT References: <1991May13.194337.3494@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <282f3194.17a3@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA Lines: 20 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: blanche.ics.uci.edu In article muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes: >Discrimination against women, even to "protect" them, is not of benefit >to them. The point is not that women are in a "privileged" position >because so many fewer of them die in combat, but that they are not >allowed to make that choice for themselves, so they are kept in a >subordinate/"child"/protected position. We don't benefit from the >government making decisions "for our own good." Excuse me? And men have a better choice? I can simply choose not to participate in a war, huh? Men cannot choose for themselves whether they want to kill people and be killed in some foreign land. Women cannot choose for themselves whether they want to stay home and tend victory gardens. So who has the better deal "for their own good?" -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alden B. Gannon, a.k.a. Zarathustra. INTERNET: gannon%mdi.com@uunet.uu.net "Gotta find a woman be good to me, USENET: ..uunet!mdi.com!gannon Won't hide my liquor, try to serve me tea." --Grateful Dead.