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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: avoiding Anthropomorphism
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 13:09:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 13:09:13 1985
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> But, Jeff, reread my foolish jokes, and maybe you can catch that I'm not
> making fun of your point about assuming that human motivations are 
> different from other animals', but rather the all-too-common human mistake
> of drawing correspondences between the wrong two behaviors; hence the 
> honeymoon/salmon, cuckoo/daycare, and so on.
> 
> L S Chabot   ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot

I hereby plead guilty to overreacting, excess offensensibility, and general
jumping of the gun. I'm sorry. And thank you for your mild response. You must
have been pretty surprised to see my reaction!

I guess seeing 3 years of work (more or less) go up in smoke (more or less)
makes me more irritable than usual.

					Jeff Winslow,
		           Power supply designer for defunct workstations