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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Women vs. women in the workplace
Message-ID: <2559@randvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 18:28:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 19 18:28:52 1985
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Reply-To: edhall@rand-unix.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica
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Summary: 

> As long as women perceive that they can only have power through the men
> above them, they will remain in competition with each other for the favor
> of those men.  Only when women can perceive of having their own power can
> they stop competing among themselves.
> 
> 				Sunny
> -- 
> {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)

I'd agree, Sunny, but only if you substitute ``people'' for both ``men''
and ``women''.  Men play these same end-justifies-the-means competitive
games with each other, though in a sexist environment women make easier
targets.  Some women are getting just as good at playing these games--
and often find their sisters to be easy targets, too.

The solution is not to be found in making women just as powerful as
men, for the power some men have is an inhuman power, dehumanizing
the controller and the controllee alike.  It saddens me to see women
struggling to be just like men.  The nature of patriarchal power is
the same no matter which sex has the reins--I hardly see any gain in
women learning to perpetuate it.  And I think, Sunny, that you would
agree with me on this.

		-Ed Hall
		decvax!randvax!edhall