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From: cheryl@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (cheryl)
Newsgroups: soc.women
Subject: Re: Reverse sexism is OK. (Actually reverse discrimination)
Message-ID: <1034@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 13:47:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 17 13:47:22 1986
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Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <1040@dadla.UUCP> rob@dadla.UUCP (Rob Vetter) writes:
>In article <923@ihu1h.UUCP> jailbird@ihu1h.UUCP (Harvey) writes:
>>
>>President Johnson defended affirmative action this way:
>>
>>	Imagine a hundred yard dash in which one of the two
>>	runners has his legs shackled together. He has pro-
>>	gressed ten yards while the unshackled runner has 
>>	gone 50 yards. At that point the judges decide the 
>>	race is unfair. How do they rectify the situation? Do


>The best soulution is to restart both runners, but shackle the second
>this time - reverse discrimination :-)
>Rob Vetter

Oh,  Rob, you must have a very big TARDIS!  In jest, you propose
that we go back to the days of female infanticide, and not just 
*stop* female infanticide, but actually retroactively institute 
male infanticide.  Interesting.  If you had such a time machine 
(the only way you could go back and start over), I think it would
be far more equitable to merely prevent female infanticide, the
denial of property rights, the denial of education, the refusal
to acknowlege accomplishment, the forced domestic servitude, the
denial of medical care, the forced sexual servitude, the exclusion
from scientific and professional societies, the confinement to 
low-paying employment, the denial of the right to vote, the denial
of equal pay for equal work--and perhaps then the culture of female
humiliation would be less firmly rooted in our society today.  I don't
think that it's necessary to do all those things to men:  *THAT*
would be reverse discrimination.


>"Waste is a terrible thing to mind" - NRC
>  (Well, they COULD have said it)

"A Mine is a terrible thing to waste"  - South African Whites
   (Well, they DO say it)

Cheryl