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From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Discrimination
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 17:58:06 EDT
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> White males were & are the richest, most powerful group in this country.
...
> If white males are being discriminated against, it doesn't seem to have
> affected their well-being as a group. Individual cases of *genuine* discrim-
> ination are quite sad & I empathize with those men who now have to know what
> it feels like (welcome to the majority), but there are far more individual
> cases for women, blacks, Hispanics, Asian-Americans, Native Americans gays
> and Jews.
> 
> C. E. Jackson
> ihnp4!lznv!cja

It's not the generic white male that hold the power in American
society.  It's the group known as WASP-M...White, Anglo-Saxon,
Protestant, and Male.  
	It's not necessarily the individual man that oppresses women;
it's the patriarchal status quo we have to push against.  And that
status quo *can be* detrimental to an individual man; it *is* 
detrimental to all women, to Blacks, Hispanics, Asian-Americans,
to gays, and others.
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