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From: sethg@athena.mit.edu (Seth A. Gordon)
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Subject: Re: Sexism vs. Men's Oppression
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Date: 3 Jun 91 22:34:35 GMT
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In article <675774990@lear.cs.duke.edu>
 gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) writes:
>...After 
>three years Carter renewed the men-only registration for draft.  NOW had
>nothing to say about that because it did not care about men.

False.  NOW sued the Army in an attempt to make the draft co-ed --
arguing that being drafted was a Great Duty of American Citizenship, or
some such, and that it was demeaning for women to be excluded.

Source: the anthology _Women and Men's Wars,_ edited by Cynthia Enloe.

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