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From: mason@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Question on discrimination re the USAF
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Date: Wed, 9-Nov-83 15:46:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  9 15:46:19 1983
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The problem is that everyone sees the world as ruled by sex.  Now
I'm not above a little indulgence myself every now & then, but I don't
understand why people think a man and a woman cannot work together in
close quarters without sex being a question, let alone an issue.  I think
that the main problem is that (depressingly) women are still viewed as
sex objects & children producers, servants to the 'real' workers, and I
despair of this changing soon.  But, in answer to your question, I think it
clearly is discrimination, and that things aren't going to get better unless
we start making them better.  In the extreme case, one could say that having
women associating with any men not their husband or blood family will lead
to sex problems, and treat women as they do in Iran.  There are 2 remaining
problems: women are not blameless in the view of male-female relationships
presented above, there are too many women who are looking to 'catch a man';
second, if women were added to the job, some problems would doubtless arise.
While these could be disciplined, and eventually the problem would go away,
in the meantime many people would be (mostly psychologically) hurt.

 -- Dave Mason, U. Toronto CSRG,
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