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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: parden me, but your stereotypes are showing
Message-ID: <1825@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 12:58:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 12:58:58 1986
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In article <1951@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
>> 	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.

From a different posting by Greg:

>  This I am not so sure about. She is so RIGHTEOUS. Her roommate is 
>automatically "wrong" because she does things that Becky thinks are
>inappropriate. And so they are, for BECKY. I find this attitude typical
>of people who are openly religious

Is this the same person?  Sexist stereotypes are wrong, but
religious stereotypes are okay?

Make up your mind, Greg.

Snoopy
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