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From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP
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Subject: Re: net.women.only
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Date: Mon, 22-Aug-83 09:47:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 22 09:47:29 1983
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	This brings me to the point of needing to express a feeling I have
	been fighting with for a while.

<<<<< FLAME ON >>>>>

	WHY IS IT OK FOR {BLACKS, WOMEN, ANY-OTHER-"MINORITY"} TO HAVE 
	A SPECIAL GROUP FOR THEM  WHICH MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL POPULATION
	MAY NOT JOIN, BUT IF MALE WASPS TRY THE SAME THING IT IS
	PREJUDICE??

<<<<<FLAME TURNED DOWN SOME >>>>>

	I have seen over the last several years the growth of a number
	of widely accepted groups pressuring for the advancement of
	particular groups.  These groups have included racial groups
	(polish people, black people, hispanic people, amer-asians, etc)
	as well as womens groups, groups of the elderly, etc.  It seems
	that any so-called minority (note that women are not in fact
	a minority in our population) can have some group pushing for
	itself, but everytime some white (unidentifiable genetic background)
	male suggests that white men in general should do likewise, all
	the other groups immediately shout "prejudice!".  Do not we as
	white men have the same rights as any other member of society,
	or must white men continue to be the second class citizens of
	our society, without equal rights in the judicial and political
	processes?

don stanwyck : ..!ihnp4!ihuxr!stanwyck : 312-979-6667 : btl @ naperville, il