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From: pauls@tekecs.UUCP (Paul Sweazey)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Now is the time for all good men...
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Date: Mon, 27-May-85 20:27:05 EDT
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> 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

The point is that the above "implication" disappears.
"Man" no longer implies "male".  It implies "human".

It would be just as reasonable to eliminate the word
"man" from the language and use "woman" to refer to
any member of the human race.  The advantage of using
"man" is that we may keep all the old phrases such as,
"All men are created equal".  To be manly is no longer
to be macho, but to be humanly, humane, compasionate.

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