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From: norman@lasspvax.UUCP (Norman Ramsey)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Imagine a non-sexist society...
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Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 14:05:10 EDT
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In article <235@whuts.UUCP> amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill) writes:
>> 	A couple months ago I posted an article asking people to suggest what
>> sorts of qualities they imagined a non-sexist society to have. 
>
>BORING!!!!
>
>Unless the gene-splicers come up with a way of making us
>androgynous, the idea is flatly impossible. Equal rights for women
>(and men) is not the same as trying to erase all differences between
>the sexes. I think that many people are confused about this. I am
>not. I support equal *rights* whole-heartedly. The idea of a
>non-sexist society is absurd. The most interesting women I know are
>those that are not trying to deny their femininity, yet refuse to
>take any sh*t from men.
>
>Someone will probably point out that I find them interesting because
>they meet my expectations about women--there, I've saved you the
>trouble of posting it. 
>
>Best regards,
>Andy Cohill
>{allegra|ihnp4}houxm!whuxl!whuts!amc


Andy, I think you miss the boat. Sexual equality is not the same as sexual
uniformity. 

Speaking to thoughts on nonsexist societies, I think the reason David's not
received any replies is that it takes an awful lot of work to come up with a
reasonably self-consistent society different from our own. I haven't any
ideas of my own worth mentioning, but I've rerad a number of novels
set in nonsexist societies (all science fiction, which is the only genre I
know of which lends itself to societies not our own). I'll try to cobble
together a short bibliography, if anyone is interested. If you're dying to
try something right away I would suggest _Startide_Rising_, by David Brin.
-- 
Norman Ramsey

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