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From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Now is the time for all good men...
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 19:07:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 20 19:07:32 1985
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(excerpts from) Cheryl Stewart:
> 
> Face it--"person" is a wimpy word.  No
> man (male or female) wants to be merely a PERSON or a THEY or a HE/SHE.

> 1.  People filling traditionally feminine roles would be 
>     called "men".  A nurse does a job which places him in 
>     life-or-death situations.  Therefore, he should do his
>     duty like a man.  A parent does a job which molds the
>     very minds and souls of men at their inception.  Like-
>     wise he should do his duty like a man, not shrinking 
>     from the grave responsibility before him, treating the
>     young life with the appropriate sensitivity and good
>     judgement.  Does this phraseology change your perception
>     of traditionally feminine roles?  
> 
> 2.  People filling traditionally masculine roles would be
>     called "men".  It's a man's world (so? we're all good
>     men here, aren't we? I know I'm at least as good a man
>     as you!  You want to prove me wrong?  You want to fight?
>     You don't like the way I do my nails? Well, I don't like
>     the way you do yours! So there!)  Does this change your
>     perception of traditionally masculine roles?
> 
>                                  Are we not men?
> 

No, we are NOT men. We are people.  I very much resent the implication
here:  that "traditional" male qualities and roles are better than
"traditional" female qualities and roles.  I do NOT want to become more
like a man, I just want the freedom to be whatever kind of PERSON I
want to be.  What IS this shit about "doing one's duty like a man"?
(Of course, women never did their duty properly; the only way to do
so would to become more manlike.)  

	marie desjardins