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From: sml@luke.UUCP (Steven List @ Uncle Bene's Farm)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Women and the consumption of toilet paper.
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Date: Sun, 2-Jun-85 17:47:02 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  2 17:47:02 1985
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> >>I think it is due to testosterone poisonning myself.
> >
> >Frankly, Ms. Quigley, I think your attitude sucks.
> 
> I like her attitude much better than your sense of humor.
> 
> >Believe it or not, there are quite a few men who really don't give a shit
> >whether they are manly or not. They do things because they like to do so,
> >or because it makes sense to do so, not because they are trying to prove
> >themselves or make a social issue.
> 
> Well, to tie this in to another major discussion on the group - that of
> sexist language - most men stand up because that's how their fathers
> did it.  In other words, they're just carrying on the male tradition
> without thinking about what it means.  That's exactly the problem the
> folks who want to get rid of "he" as the generic third person pronoun
> want to deal with.
> 
> It was corny at the time, and still is, but there's a line in the play
> "Butterflies are Free" that says "There are none so blind as those
> who will not see."  Corny or not, it makes a good point.

I don't know about you, but I think it's an awful lot easier to stand
up, open my fly, and take a leak than removing and restoring my pants
(et al) for something so simple.  I think God's mistake was in not
providing women the same facility!

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