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From: bodhi@hrcca.UUCP (Bodhisattva)
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Subject: Re: Yale-Harvard marriage study
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Date: Sun, 5-Oct-86 15:20:17 EDT
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Valerie Maslak in <235@sri-unix.ARPA> writes:
[about her discomfort that some of the writers in this notestream seem
to think that a person's value is defined by their financial success:]
> Let me put it straight: I refuse to believe that a person should
> have more rights in a relationship just because he or she earns
> more money, has more education, or seems to be more powerful in
> an economic sense. 
> 				 I've been there: My ex thought
> that becoming a big success as an entrepreneur meant he got the
> majority vote. (End of relationship.) 

Why is it that, despite two similar situations, a relationship ends when
a male with somewhat higher financial status automatically expects the
female to give up what she values, in one case I respect the person
highly, and in the other, the reverse?

I guess because Valerie was looking for fairness and for higher values
in the relationship, while Cheryl was only after an excuse to vent her
generalized hatred, and to show an honest and blunt version of the
mammonism all too commonly seen lately.

> 				Come on folks, let's talk. Is money and
> power what you all get off on?

Well, the New Frontier and the Great Society are dead, along with most
of the heroes.  The Hippies and the Love Generation gave way to the
Yuppies when those leaders sold out or found E.J. Korvette's Kristian
Krusade.  So what else do they all have to work for?  

... panem et circenses ...

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Bodhisattva					UUCP:  ihnp4!hrcca!bodhi

        Kinsetsu tattoshi io iedomo, manako ni ochite ei to naru

    Though gold-dust is precious, in the eyes it obscures the vision
						     
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