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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (beth d. christy)
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Subject: Re: Sexist article in Harvard Independant
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Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 12:25:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 30 12:25:51 1985
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Sigh.  So much to flame, so little time:

From: lucius@tardis.UUCP (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
> 	This is a letter concerning the commentary column, "I Yam What I Yam,"
> by David W. Bell '86, of The Harvard Independant of April 18, 1985.  This
> article was so degrading that I was morally obligated to write a response
> and post it to our local flame group.  To reduce the length of this posting,
> I will replace all the comments I posted in our local flame group with just
> this:
>
>			******** FLAME AT WILL ********
>
> >	. . . . .
> >   And of course, society expects, even demands, that men and women behave
> > differently.  For instance, I don't ever have to worry about make-up or
> > fingernail polish, or whether to wear a skirt or pants.  Society also has
> > behavioral standards for Blacks.  But the male-female social structures
> > are of a much more implicit nature, tracing their roots ultimately to the
> > simple physical fact that men tend to be larger than women and therefore
> > physically dominant.

This guy actually thinks that "worry[ing] about make-up or fingernail polish,
or whether to wear a skirt or pants" can actually "trac[e] their roots
ultimately to the simple physical fact that men tend to be larger than women
and therefore physically dominant"?!?!?!?!?!?!?!  They *better* be physically
dominant - they're clearly *mentally* somewhere below navel lint.

(My apologies to all you clear-thinking, decent fellows I just degraded.
 This is a flame, not a children's textbook.)

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--JB  (not Elizabeth, not Beth Ann, not Mary Beth...Just Beth)