Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: gazit@cs.duke.EDU (Hillel Gazit) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Sexism vs. Men's Oppression Message-ID: <675992713@lime.cs.duke.edu> Date: 4 Jun 91 00:50:07 GMT References: <1991May29.183550.484@MDI.COM> <15651.2846517e@zeus.unomaha.edu> Organization: The Piranha Club Lines: 19 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu In article <15651.2846517e@zeus.unomaha.edu> (Truth or Dare?) writes: # Hillel points out that President Carter pushed a male registration # in the seventies. Yes, quite true, Hillel. I remember that. I also # remember that there was some debate as to whether women would be # included and I think that the reason Carter ended up pushing the male # registration is because he knew that a male/female registration would # never pass through Congress. He wanted a registration and he took # what he could get. NOW that talks so much about equal rights had nothing to say about that. # Alden -- why aren't women going to be drafted anytime soon? I'll # tell you why. I think that we are in quite a conservative backlash # in this country, for one thing. The conservative backlash is, in *my* opinion, a result of a strong disappointment. The promised liberal paradise did not come, and people are tired of all the excuses.