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- From: mcbride@rust.zso.dec.com (Melinda McBride)
- Subject: Re: just when you thought you had heard it all
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.195119.17649@ninja.zso.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - DECwest Engineering
- References: <MS-C.724879834.377401575.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:51:19 GMT
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- In article <MS-C.724879834.377401575.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (Mark Crispin) writes:
- >This little news item came to my attention a few days ago.
- > >It seems that a girl[*] made it into her high school's football program.
- > .... During a game, she got hit and seriously injured ....
- >
- >She is now suing the school district for megabucks ....
- >
- >The Sun had a withering editorial on the subject, on how this girl's
- >selfishness turned an advance towards sexual equality into a huge setback.
- >
- > ....
- >
- [Omitted material indicated by ....]
- Plenty of high school boys have sued school districts and football
- helment manufacturers over injuries sustained playing football. I don't
- see how the person's gender affects whether or not one would think this
- is responsible behavior.
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- Mac
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