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From: fek@wuphys.UUCP (Frank Kramer)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: women's place
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 15:07:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 27 15:07:27 1985
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NOTE: To those who subscribe to the "creationist theory" of life on
earth - disregard the paragraph below.

The very idea that bearing children is a response to societal pressure
is absurd.  We are here because our ancestors were very good at siring
and bearing children (who can live to reproduce).  Society in the
Peoples Republic of China demands that one child per couple be the
normal limit.  That particular societal pressure results in things
like female infanticide because, for some strange reason, people seem
inclined to have children to pass on their genes (and their names)
regardless of societal pressure to the contrary.  We have children
because that particular propensity is in hardware for the great
majority of human beings.

As a final opinion, would all of those people who think that
childbearing precludes economic productivity please come out of the
trees and join our society.  And would those who think that having the
ability to bear children and the pursuance of that abilty is somehow
a source of shame please go into the mountains for a good weekend of
careful self-examination.

That's all,

Frank
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