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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: men dominate net.women (flame-ish)
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Date: Sun, 1-Sep-85 03:14:02 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  1 03:14:02 1985
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> 
> Women were given the right to vote in the 20's because it was felt their
> "cooperative and nurturing" forced would help politics. It's first real
> demonstration was when the "Women's Christian Temperance Union" managed
> to push through prohibition. This merely nurtured the mafia and set up
> decades of fucked-up attitudes and policies concerning alcohol.
> -- 
> Charles Forsythe

Wrong.  The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote.  Prohibition came
with the 18th amendment.  How could it have been the fault of the women when
they weren't even allowed to vote at the time?  The 21st amendment, which
repealed prohibition, was ratified after women won the right to vote, so
it makes more sense give women some credit for the repeal of prohibition than
to give them the entire blame for its institution.  I understand that you're
only trying to show that women as a class aren't perfect (which is true), but
you might try choosing examples based on truth.

I also feel that your attack on Sunny Kirsten was unwarranted.  Why not just
say that you disagree with her and let it go at that?  The viciousness of
your response shows that you feel threatened by her point of view.  Now, it
happens that I disagree with Sunny about a lot of things, and the way she
expresses herself annoys me sometimes.  But it's her opinion, and she has a
right to it, especially since she's only advocating a point of view and not
any sort of action against me or anyone else.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak

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