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Subject: Re: Generalizations and controlled women - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 15-Jan-84 08:11:50 EST
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ucbesvax!turner    Jan 12 13:03:00 1984

>   Subject: Generalizations and controlled women
>   Sophie Quigley says:
>   > Making sure that women do not copulate with whomever they wish is and has 
>   > been a very important part of most cultures.
>   Now, Sophie, you've just had to give up one generalization (if I read the
>   articles about "being subtle" right); shouldn't you be more careful about
>   making others? I don't suppose you'd care to specify which cultures, and
>   give more than a few anecdotes as evidence? When I think back on the women
>   and men I have known, this statement of yours really amazes me.
>					  Jeff Winslow
Jeff, perhaps *you* should be more specific about the native cultures of
"women and men [you] have known".  In particular, how many of them were from
provincial Chinese or third world Islamic backgrounds?  If we take these as
more representative of "most cultures" than back-grounds from the Western
cultures (ignoring, for the moment, the macho contribution of the
Mediterranean), I think Sophie Quigley has the kind of case that should
send you scurrying to the library in search of a better education.  Which
is what you should be doing now, not venting your ignorance onto the net.
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Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)