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From: tittle@alexandre-dumas.ICS.UCI.EDU (Cindy Tittle Moore)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Sexism vs. Men's Oppression
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Date: 31 May 91 21:03:05 GMT
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In <1991May29.182720.349@MDI.COM> gannon@MDI.COM (Alden Gannon) writes:
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>If men hold the power, where did I get my six points?  Why is it in the
>interests of men to create AA, or sexist abuse laws?  Men do *not* hold
>sovereignty (in the Rouseauian sense).  It is held by powerful voting
>constituencies; one of which is NOW.

Let me make a minor point here.  I have never seen men stop themselves
from oppressing men.  In the last point you made, actual beating up of
gay men is done by men in probably 99% of the cases (I am *not*
dismissing the impact of female homophobia) -- when is the last time
you heard about a gang of women beating a suspected homosexual up?

My question then becomes, how do you attribute the causes behind your
six points TO WOMEN?  Or, more accurately, only to women?  Why is it
that the idea of men holding power means to you that *no* men will
suffer?  (Is it because you think that no women will suffer if women
hold power?)

--Cindy