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From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.sci,net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Why are there so few [female|black] physicists?
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Date: Wed, 16-Jul-86 13:30:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 16 13:30:23 1986
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In article <2250@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <629@mhuxr.UUCP> mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (Damballah Wedo) writes:
>>but that is not the primary intent. That is to permit this *large* class
>>of citizens to claim their rightful place at the table of power, by removing
>>the barriers that have been built all around them.
>
>Nobody has a "right" to power over others.  It is doubly wrong to claim
>such a "right" on the basis of race or sex.

Clever, but it won't wash. Marcel said or implied nothing about anyone 
claiming a right to power *over* others. In fact, he specifically chose
an image - that of sitting at table - to emphasize the claim of *equal*
power. (Well, approximately equal, anyway.)

I hope Marcel will forgive me for butting in like this, but I couldn't
let such a blatant twist of meaning go unscathed.

					Jeff Winslow