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From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Some Quotable Quotes
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 20:35:40 EST
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In article <245@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> cheryl@batcomputer.UUCP () writes:
>In article <145@dg_rtp.UUCP> throopw@dg_rtp.UUCP writes:
>>
>>It seems to me that someone who finds much truth in the above quote from
>>_The Name of the Rose_ is also a fairly humorless person.  After all,
>>there is very little to laugh at when you rule out both evil and good.
>>(Even worse, in my humble opinion, a feminist advancing the above quote
>>reinforces the unfortunate and false stereotype that all feminists are
>>humorless.)
>
>	I claim the right to be just as humorless as I damn
>	well please when it comes to sexism.  If I were male,
>	the attribute of humorlessness would be construed as
>	sobriety and seriousness.  

Only by people who were also humorless. And who cares what they think?
Buncha soreheads. :-)

I guess you haven't been reading the rebuttals to Jym Dyer's articles on
related subjects. Or do you claim he's not a man? OK, OK, so one example
doesn't prove anything. 

I think that readers of your articles already know that your sexism is
deadly serious. :-)

					Jeff Winslow
					"Why do you hate me?" - Socrates