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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Women are not people?!?!?!?
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Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 11:58:06 EST
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> (* WARNING: WRITER IS ANGRY, SO THE FOLLOWING MAY SEEM NOT UNLIKE A FLAME *)
> 
> I was reading through a story in net.jokes today, and choked on the
> following sentence:
> 
> 	His people spent a good 8 hours a day working in
> 	the fields, and then went home to their wives.  
> 	
> Since when are wives not people???? 

Would it help if I suggested that the field workers were all lesbians?


(can he be serious?)


No, I thought not. But remember that many sets which are *different*
nonetheless have *large intersections*. And after all, it *was* a joke -
perhaps subtler than anyone realized.

					Jeff Winslow