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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: sexist language/bad attitudes
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Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 14:12:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 14:12:42 1985
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> Jeannette Zobjeck:
> Not only does the awareness increase but the wish to make changes becomes
> stronger, at least for those who are concerned with moving away from
> sexist society into something healthier. I Marcel Simon's case  I am
> beginning to believe that he would rather have a situation ongoing
> which of itself would distract from the relearning process and so add
> a generation or two before any real progress could be made. I think too
> that this suits a great many men ( and some women I have met ) beacuse
> they are possed of a fear that when sexist ideas are finally shown for
> the waste which these ideas are then the world will somehow be less
> available for the easy picking the stereotyping of the sexes makes
> it for men. 

Oh I get it. I don't like the singular they, therefore it follows that I
"would rather have a situation ongoing which ... would distract from the
relearning process and so add a generation or two before real progress
could be made." Nice piece of logic, Zobjeck. Why don't you come right out
and wonder if I've stopped beating my wife or something, while you are at it?

Marcel Simon