Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero-c!nadel From: rivero@dev8.mdcbbs.com Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: birth control failure? Message-ID: <1991Jun12.100120.1@dev8.mdcbbs.com> Date: 12 Jun 91 10:01:20 GMT References: <91158.182727DOCTORJ@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> Sender: news@aero.org Organization: McDonnell Douglas M&E, Cypress CA Lines: 26 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Originator: nadel@aerospace.aero.org In article <91158.182727DOCTORJ@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>, DOCTORJ@slacvm.slac.stanford.EDU (Jon J Thaler) writes: > In article <676323635@lear.cs.duke.edu>, gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) says: > >>Quiet a few feminists do view us (men) as very different alien >>creatures, and that's, in *my* opinion, a basic flaw of feminism. > > That is an interesting turn of logic, akin to "lots of people who > believe in God are racist, and that's religion's basic flaw." This > fallacy has a name, and I'm sure HG knows what it is. -- I'm not sure I agree with your analogy. Religion does not (in most cases) adress the issue of race, only that of dealing with non-believers. Feminism, on the other hand, DOES deal with differences between the sexes. And, because politicalization tends towards factionalism, the view that the opposing camp (us male types) are very different alien creatures is reinforced. Witness the "all men are potential rapists" rhetoric. This promotes an (unfair and discriminatory) image of all men as uncivilized barbarians unable to control our primal instincts. ========================================================================== \\\\ Michael Rivero | "I drank WHAT!" |"KILL EVERYBODY! Let GOD | (. rivero@dev8a.mdcbbs | Socrates -------------------sort 'em out!"| )> DISCLAIMER::: |-----------|"Nuke the unborn | Saint | == "Hey man, I wasn't |Looking4luv| gay whales | Dominic | ---/ even here then!" |Settle4sex!| for Jesus!" | | ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------+++++++++++++++