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From: chabot@amber.DEC (Lisa Chabot)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women,net.motss
Subject: Re: Bigotry
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Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 14:23:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 14:23:52 1984
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Greg Woods said:
> It seems that it's considered OK for minorities to say bigoted things about 
> whites and/or males, but not the other way around. 

Good grief!  Who said this.  This resembles the discussion in net.women about 
the hypothetical, unjust, violent attacks :-) on biological determinists.  If I
turn on the tv I see lots of bigoted things being said about everybody, and 
most of the sayers (not just the actors, but the writers, producers, studio 
whatevers) are adult white heterosexual males.  I don't even take the ones that
refer to some group to which I belong to refer specifically, personally to me.

> ...We are not objecting to someone being a lesbian, we are objecting to this 
> "generic" hate of "most" men, based on a *very* small sample of the total 
> population. It's time we got rid of this double standard.

But what is being objected to here?  ONE person's opinions about men (and in 
some other's letters, the fact that whole bunch of women didn't leap onto the 
bandwagon to defend men's feelings).  Lissen, honeys, ya gotsta take care o yo
own feelins yoseff.  It's somethin some a us learnt just by bein womens or by
bein jist plain grownups.  And when you learn this, there'll be less of a 
double standard.

	L S Chabot

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