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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: career vs. relationships
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Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 11:34:10 EST
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> 	BUT there are many 
> 	NON-blind, NON-stupid people who KNOWINGLY AND PURPOSEFULLY
> 	*USE* these commonly held assumptions *against* bright,
> 	competitive young women because bright, competitive
> 	young wome threaten male dominance in general

  This is a crock. Yes, I'll call you paranoid, but it does not "serve" me
to do so. What this really is is sexism and stereotyping, exactly the
same thing I hear you complaining so bitterly against when practiced by men.
Listen to yourself. You are putting all men into a class based on their gender.
If that isn't sexism, I don't know what is. If you want to create a non-sexist
world (a goal I am 100% for, because believe it or not society also has
expectations about what a MAN should or shouldn't do, some of which I find
as objectionable as you apparently do those about women) you could start
by not practicing it yourself.
   I think you are giving a lot of ignorant jerks a lot more credit than they
deserve. This whole notion that all men deliberately subjogate all women
is ridiculous, and propogating it only serves to give the few who really
*are* trying to dominate an "excuse" to do so.

--Greg
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