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- From: mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi)
- Subject: Re: Radical feminists
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:09:36 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.030111.25846@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <725097282snx@sloth.equinox.gen.nz> <1992Dec23.183805.26052@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Dec23.183805.26052@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> uhde@ollie.jsc.nasa.gov (Jo Uhde) writes:
- >In article <725097282snx@sloth.equinox.gen.nz>, hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Phil Anderson) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >> In article <1992Dec22.030111.25846@bmerh85.bnr.ca> nadeau@bnr.ca writes:
- >>
- >> > branded a "radical feminist" for preferring "persons" to "men (including
- >
- >I can't _wait_ to tell my friend Chakravarthi (Chucks) that he is a radical
- >feminist! To show that all Indians are not as humor (humour?) impaired as
- >Mandar is,
-
- Whatever gives you the idea that I am humour impaired? I appreciate a
- good joke when I see one. But these "radical feminists" aren't joking!
- And from the foll. passage, I don't consider Chakravarthi to be a
- radical feminist, I simply find him to be a person *misguided* by
- these feminists.
-
- I will relate the following exchange between Chucks, and another
- >Indian friend, Vaman:
- >
- >CHUCKS: Vaman, you must change your name in order to be PC.
- >
- [..rest deleted...]
-
- What is PC???
- All I can think of is "personal computer".
-
- Could someone please explain?
-
- Thanks,
-
- Mandar.
-
- --
- "Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die
- for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
- You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some
- day you'll join us, and the world will be as one." - John Lennon.
-