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From: dyer@vaxuum.DEC (Official Mail of the 1984 Olympics)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Sexual Equality is a Two-Way Street
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Date: Thu, 29-Mar-84 12:44:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 29 12:44:19 1984
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| Sexual Equality is a Two-Way Street |

	I'm pretty ambivalent about the issue of net.women.only.  If
some women want a women-only forum, I'm not about to suggest its can-
cellation.  On the other hand, I can't help but find sexist overtones
in the suggestion that every man is going to hurl criticisms and no
woman is going to.  I realize the likelihood of that occurring in gen-
eral, but I feel that exclusion of participants on basis of gender
does little to discourage sexism.
	I feel that the problems we now face between the sexes are
largely precipitated by the seperation of the sexes from childhood
through adulthood.  Little boys and girls are encouraged to play
apart from each other.  When puberty hits, those with heterosexual
desires now have to deal with what they've always thought of as crea-
tures from another planet.  And now, in adulthood, far too many lack
friends (non-sexual) of the opposite sex.
	Our current social mess (the international situation is des-
perate, as usual) is a result of an overemphasis of the so-called mas-
culine side of humanity.  Our only way out of it is to restore the
balance of our (so-called) feminine and (so-called) masculine sides,
and our only way to do that is together.
		<_Jym_>

| Jym Dyer | DEC Documentation Production Software | Nashua, New Hampshire |
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