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From: chabot@miles.DEC (L S Chabot)
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Subject: Re: Re: Yet Another New Topic
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 21:17:56 EST
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Jon Shapiro
<> Well, people seem to want to be "swept away", to be irresponsible--even, in
<> the women's case, to themselves.
<
<  Any normal woman stupid enough to willingly go to bed with a man who
< cares so little about her health, safety, and feelings is making a tragic
< error.

Let us change the word "stupid" to "naive": someone who has not been raised
to take responsibility for her life, but has been fed a treacle-diet of
Cinderella waiting for the prince with the glass slipper to rescue her from
a career of kitchen drudgery, of Snow White preserved in a glass case and
Sleeping Beauty sleeping in an enchanted castle waiting for their respective
princes to awaken them; life is death until a man arrives to take control of
your life.  How many stories are there for little girls to grow up on, that
show that cleverness is the way to succeed?  Little girls get stories about
little girls who grow up to be beautiful and passive and virtuous (hmm, well
we won't think about the origins of that word); if they want to hear and read
tales of cleverness they have to read about little boys, FOR THE MOST PART.

It is a tragic error to make, but when you've been told your whole life that
to be fulfilled you have to absolve responsibility...can we really condemn
anyone who's been raised so?  No, we just have to work to teach them better,
and to keep others from being so damaged.

L S Chabot
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PS--And let's keep the abortion discussions out of net.singles!  --lsc

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