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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re:  Mothers in restaurants
Message-ID: <2900@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 10:57:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  9 10:57:10 1985
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(My pain and my distress, again it is not easy to express...)
 
The referenced article is about as offensive as anything I've seen on this
network.  Note the (unwarranted) assumptions:
 
1.  Women who lunch with their children must not work for a living.
2.  Women who don't work outside the home are less important than
    women who do.
3.  Women who don't work outside the home have nothing but free time,
    and so should schedule their lives for the convenience of women who
    do work outside the home.
 
Ever hear the phrase "second-class citizen,"  Melanie?  The ugliness of the
below article would have been self-evident had you substituted 'blacks'
for 'women with children'.   What you're saying is that your needs
outweigh those of the inferior classes -- housewives.  Sorry, sweetie,
but they don't.
 
Note:  I am *NOT* arguing that noisy children aren't annoying; they
can be.  But Melanie herself says that it isn't the noise which bothers
her as much as the inconvenience of waiting for a seat at lunch.
 
Shufflin' back to the back of the bus,
Elizabeth Hanes Perry
> 
> 
> Here here (Hi Ron-bob!)  I've often gotten just as pissed off as
> you Ron.  I think the thing that really gets me is when I go out on my
> lunch hour (at work), and I have to wait for these mothers and their kids--
> who don't work, and have nothing better to do at 11:30 in the morning--
> to be seated!  I mean they can eat anytime they want whereas I have one hour
> to eat and get back to work.  Then the kid starts screamin his little face
> off to boot (although that doesn't bother me nearly as much as waiting for
> some mother with her three kids to finish eating so I can sit down for
> my lunch).
> 
> Why can't these mothers continue doing their shopping till say 2pm?
> This way those of us who work for a living and get one hour for lunch
> won't have to wait (and inevitably be late getting back to work)!!
> 
> Melanie
> ihnp4!mhuxt!techpub

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Elizabeth Hanes Perry
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