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- From: arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers)
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- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.190719.15860@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 19:07:19 GMT
- References: <BzInI2.7Bn@unix.amherst.edu> <BzKx7n.9Aq@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Dec21.114848.11713@panix.com> <BzMCGn.2HsA@austin.ibm.com>
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- In <BzMCGn.2HsA@austin.ibm.com>
- alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec21.114848.11713@panix.com>
- >mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik) writes:
- >>[...]
- >>Feminism is not (especially) designed as a re-education program for
- >>men, but as an empowerment program for women. It is not my job, as
- >>a feminist, to use my time and energy in the education of clueless
- >>men, although I have been known to spend considerable time doing
- >>just that when I encounter a man who shows some signs of being
- >>responsive.
-
- >Any philosophy that excludes nearly half the human race is,
- >by my definition, untenable.
-
- Illogical, Captain!
-
- Do, please, stop and think before posting again: because you really
- are missing Mara's point here.
-
- She's not excluding the clueless; they exclude themselves (by
- definition).
-
- (If you won't take it from her, then please take it from me: because
- if she were saying what you take her to be saying, I would feel just
- as you do; but she isn't, and I don't.)
-
- >But you just contradicted yourself.
-
- Uh-uh.
-
- >You can't have it both ways: either feminists have an outreach
- >program for clueless men, or they don't.
-
- They don't. Nor should they. The clueless are unreachable, by
- definition. ...
-
- Correction: You do have a point here. Humour, rhetoric, or
- (if you really must put it this way) "marketing", may succeed
- where a confrontational, or even a rational, approach, fails.
-
- >If this STILL pisses you off, Mara, then we have nothing left to
- >discuss, I'm afraid.
-
- I don't pretend to know what's going on here: your posts don't
- infuriate me. But they have been too numerous today. Try reading
- more carefully, and writing less, for the time being.
-
- >> I'm saying that the problem with what Brad
- >>has written is that he's gone so far as to say that he cannot see
- >>any other important purpose to feminism. That's not all that far
- >>from dismissing women's reactions about the so-called "inclusive
- >>masculine" pronouns.
-
- >I didn't get that from what he wrote. Can you be specific?
-
- It's perfectly clear from the paragraph he wrote, which everybody
- has been quoting back at him (and which isn't typical of his
- message as a whole). Just re-read it.
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