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From: jhull@spp2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women,net.flame
Subject: Re: Morley Safer on Burning Brides
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Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 15:37:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 20 15:37:36 1984
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Summary: 

In article <1851@nsc.UUCP> srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) writes:
>*         Tonight I saw Morley Safer's report on "60 Minutes" about
>          the practice of burning Indian brides to death.
>
>          The main point of this posting is to comment on (flame
>          about) Morley Safer's editorial commentary. He begins by
>          contrasting the fight against this practice with the fight
>          here for the ERA -- implying that American women's problems
>          are small by comparison. He fails to see the parallel
>          between the horrors that he's reporting and the systematic
>          terrorizing of American women.  Rape. Violent pornography.
>          Domestic violence. Lobotomy and shock treatment.  "Random"
>          violence. Mass murders.
>
I see some lack of parallelism in Mateosian's argument: the Indian
situation is directed only at women while the American parallel he
draws affects both genders.

I fail to see that the ERA will have substantive effect on the
American situation he describes; all the things he mentions are
already legally the same for both genders (all are illegal no matter
who the victim is except "lobotomy and shock treatment" which are
regulated by medical professionals).

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					Blessed Be,

 jhull@spp2.UUCP			Jeff Hull
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