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Subject: the dark forces
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Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 02:22:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 12 02:22:02 1985
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***** inmet:net.women / decwrl!arndt /  7:55 pm  Feb 22, 1985
>  The 'dark forces' are in retreat.  It is becoming more and more obvious to
>  all save a few obscurantist hold-outs on net.women.

Actually, Ken, you might be right.  The Boston Globe (that's the paper that
doesn't have the Wingo numbers in it :-) had a column in it recently where 
one of their female columnists claimed that the yuppie-type female of today 
does not identify with the women's movement, except as something that happened 
"in the past".   

>  Quite a turning of the tables, eh?  The 'shock troops' of the radical 
>  screamers have served their purpose and now are passed by.  The majority 
>  of women, who DO owe them a debt for waking them up, are not dancing 
>  to the 'radical' tune but are supporting 'traditional' (family) values.  

And it is these women who "are not dancing to the 'radical' tune" who are,
if not active participants, condoning the use of explosives to try and
prevent clinics from performing abortions.  Sounds like 'traditional' values
to me...

>  For example, Burton White, director of Boston's Center for Parent Education,
>  cautions, "A child needs large doses of custom-made love.  You can't expect
>  hired help to provide that.  I see the trend toward increasing use of day
>  care as a disaster."  Opps! There goes another 'women's movement' plank!

Uh, Ken, this one's going to be a big problem.  Many women are not moving
into the workforce because they're mega-career oriented; many of these women
with kids in day care work because their families need the two paychecks.
But you know that.  So Mary Smith has two choices: she can leave Johnny in
daycare for all his formative years, in which case he'll surely turn into
a mass murderer or rapist type; or, she can quit her job take care of the
kid, feeding him bread and water every day for all his formative years, in
which case he'll surely turn into a mass murderer or rapist type.

Beth Mazur
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