Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: gazit@cs.duke.EDU (Hillel Gazit) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Sexism vs. Men's Oppression Message-ID: <675716975@lear.cs.duke.edu> Date: 31 May 91 20:08:49 GMT References: <1991May29.183550.484@MDI.COM> Organization: The Piranha Club Lines: 15 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: alexandre-dumas.ics.uci.edu # 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?" In article muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes: >So, to carry this line of argument further - it is obviously better to >not work (= not be in combat positions) than it is to go out and deal >with the stress of working (= be in combat positions). The issue is that it is better not to work then to work as a slave. Somehow, the feminists who try (and sometimes succeed) to give women more opportunities in the army have very little to say/do/change about the men-only registration for draft.