Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Now is the time for all good men... Message-ID: <1121@peora.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 19:10:51 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1121 Posted: Thu Jun 20 19:10:51 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Jun-85 07:42:03 EDT References: <704@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 60 Good heavens, Beth, now you have gone and written a ton of comments on my comments, and I just happened to run across them here while waiting for the electrical storm to pass. Well, I agree with everything you've written just fine. Except the part about "privileged state," of course. What about "women's prerogative"? What about the fact that, in awkward social situations, women can fall back on the fact that it is a man's "responsibility" to "take the initiative", and do? No, I've encountered these excuses too many times, being as I am a basically shy person. But, you see, I agree with most of what you said. I wish you wouldn't be so hostile about it. This here puzzles me a little, though...: > And if people have to go into combat, *and* if women can meet the physical > demands, I'm not at all sure why women are exempt from it. Of course women can meet the physical demands. What about women athletes? They have to meet substantial physical demands. > I thought you were gonna post everything en espanol, son. Does the fact > that people can still read it bother you, or what? Well, it's an honor that you remembered my name! No, I knew they would be able to read it, I would have posted it in Slovak if I had wanted nobody to understand it. Well, Beth, you don't always argue in a manner completely objective, but at least you stand by your principles, and I don't have anything else I disagree with you on any more, since > Most of the rest is about poetry. I'll worry about legal books and > religious texts that, by defintion, try to influence the way people > think about each other. You worry about poetry. That's almost as big an honor as when the Mayor of Orlando appointed Lemuel Kay Minister of Fountains. :-) Oh, but one other thing... > Thank goddess for short lunch hours. We filled our disk structures here. Given that "goodness" does not imply any sex, whereas "godess" does, I would suggest that you have perpetrated a sexist remark in the belief that "two wrongs make a right," but it just isn't so. Of course, you could have meant a blasphemous phrase instead, but it only has one syllable instead of two, and I will give you the benefit of the doubt, anyway... Good bye, now, Beth... -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 Bar ol bar / Gur pbyq rgpurq cyngr / Unf cevagrq gur jnez fgnef bhg.