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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Affirmative Action
Message-ID: <617@hao.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Aug-83 14:53:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 31 14:53:21 1983
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>   In reference to "net.women.only might be illegal"
>   where the author cries reverse discrimination-
>   it seems to me that the tone here puts women
>   in the guilty position.  In reality it is
>   white men who are the guilty ones and Affirmative
>   Action is a process to rectify the situation.
>   			Shelley Heretyk


  Uh, oh. I knew this was coming sooner or later. As a white male, I have
been accused of being personally responsible for all the problems faced
by women and minorities, and I resent it. I have done nothing to warrant
such a charge. This is an example of negative stereotyping which is just as
bad as any stereotyping of women and minorites by those currently in power.
  Basically, I support the feminist cause, but how can I help being turned
off by statements such as this? What, exactly, am *I* guilty of? Why is it
that the feminists first claim that white males hold all the power, and then
do everything they can to alienate us? It seems to me that you should be
trying to win us over to your side, so that something real (i.e. in terms
of legalites, such as the ERA) can be done. 
  I know I'm going to receive a lot of flames for this, but I am not a
chauvinist, just a poor essay writer. I'd like to ask a serious question:
What can we (sympathetic white males) do to help? Do you even *want* our help,
and if not, how do you propose to bypass the current power structure?

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                        GREG
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