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From: ecl@mtgzy.UUCP (e.c.leeper)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.space
Subject: Re: sending [some,all] [men,women] to the moon
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 10:55:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 10:55:39 1986
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(For the benefit of newcomers: this is based on a long discussion of someone's
.signature file in net.women which said, "If we can send a man to the moon,
why can't we send all of them?")

I have a better idea.  Let's send everyone who *wants* to go to the moon.
The rest of you turkeys can stay here.

In case the preceding isn't clear enough, I'll spell it out.  I'm sick of this
whole discussion.  It is stupid, assinine, and childish.  But most of all, it
implies that going to the moon is a bad thing.  While everyone is so busy
deciding who's sexist, who's racist, and what's humorous, no one seems to care
that there are a *lot* of people (men AND women) who would give their eyeteeth
to go to the moon.  Some have given more.  I doubt that Resnick or McAuliffe
would think very much of *any* of these arguments.

There is a saying, "The meek will inherit the earth; the rest of us are going
to the stars."  It's not the meek; it's the short-sighted, and Lord knows this
group has its share.


					Evelyn C. Leeper
					...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl
					(or ihnp4!mtgzy!ecl)