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From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: women friends
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Date: Sun, 27-May-84 17:16:52 EDT
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I hope this article will not inspire anything like Martillo's Rape Cure. 
When Lisa Chabot replied to Anita's article, we learned nothing about
Anita's ethnic background.  I suspect in Islamic (and to a lesser extent)
traditional Jewish societies friendship between women are much stronger.  

Men's world and women's world do not intersect as much.  Therefore, if a
person has a close friend he is likely to be of the same sex.

Westerner's often have the impression that in patriarchal, polygynous,
endogamous societies, women lead lives of unending exploitation.  Germaine
Greer has recently written a book taking the opposite opinion somewhat
naively to the extreme.

However even in positions which Western women would find intolerable,
oriental women are often able to work together.

My great-uncle Rahamim hated the telephone because in Libya his two wives
had separate apartments and rarely spoke.  If he was having a fight with
one because she wanted something, he would just stay with the other until
the first gave in.  In Italy the first wife would call up to the second
and then they would both nudge my great-uncle until he gave in.