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From: miche@masscomp.UUCP (Harvey)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: 'I want to be me'
Message-ID: <693@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 11:58:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 11:58:12 1985
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Reply-To: miche@masscomp.UUCP (Miche Baker-Harvey)
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In article <2355@wateng.UUCP> jamcmullan@wateng.UUCP (Judy McMullan) writes:

>Did you know that one of the questions on a popular personality test (the
>Minnesota Multi-Phasic Personality Inventory) was (it may still be for all
>I know) a question asking, for men, if you were glad to be a man and for
>women, if you were glad to be a woman? It was a sign of good mental health
>for a man to be glad to be a man and a sign of good mental health for a woman
>to want to be a man. This was serious. A mentally healthy woman
>is supposed to wish she was a man!! 

An interesting fact which is related to this, I think, is that
most rapists test NORMAL on personality tests.  Aackk!!

>My point is, our society has come up with such a twisted set of expectations
>for women that a woman has been defined as well-adjusted despite the fact that
>she disklikes herself. Women are urged to adopt behaviours that are
>simultaneously scorned. I could go on and on. Read "Women and Madness", for a
>start.

I would also like to recommend Phylis Chessler's book 'About Men'.
That's not the title, but it's something like that. (She wrote Women and
Madness.)

>
>Some women HAVE managed to express disdain for men and made declarations that
>they are glad to be women. These "castrating bitches" are quickly condemned (and
>pointed to as "typical feminists").
>
>   --from the sssstickkky keyboard of JAM
>   ...!{ihnp4|clyde|decvax}!watmath!wateng!jamcmullan

Thanks for the posting, Judy.  I'm glad to be a woman.

Miche Baker-Harvey
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