Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxt!martillo From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Martillo) Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles,net.motss Subject: Re: Trish's ORIGINAL statement Message-ID: <636@ihuxt.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 09:02:34 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxt.636 Posted: Wed Jul 11 09:02:34 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Jul-84 04:01:44 EDT References: <8299@watmath.UUCP> <2591@allegra.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 15 I have seen several claims in articles in newspapers and in journals over the last couple months that men will make direct statements (like "men are insensitive and callous") while women are much more indirect (like "I think men are insensitive and callous" or "it seems to me that men are insensitive and callous"). Indirectness with potential for deniability is no excuse for bigoted statements. -- Who wouldn't break for whales? Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo