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- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
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- References: <BzMCGn.2HsA@austin.ibm.com> <1992Dec21.224716.8847@panix.com> <Bzn6C7.FLq@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:15:39 GMT
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- In article <Bzn6C7.FLq@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> dbshapco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Brad Shapcott) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec21.224716.8847@panix.com> mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik) writes:
- >
- >>We had one bozo here who said-- and I quote:
- >> >>>I can't *see* the point of feminism if it isn't to clue in the type
- >> >>>of person I used to be, and then to continue educating the type of
- >> >>>person I've become.
- >
- >Somehow, reading that quote out of context it doesn't say what I wanted it
- >to say.
-
- Ah, the "out of context" crutch. This one usually immediately
- precedes the "I've got lots of email from people who think exactly
- like me."
-
- Well, I gave you the benefit of the doubt, and went back and read your
- whole article again. Most of it was about the kind of person you used
- to be, and the kind of person you've become. Little of it, other than
- that quote, was about what feminism is or what you perceive it to be.
- As far as I can tell, Mara provided exactly as much context as she
- needed to, and far more time than anyone should spend.
-
- >It would have been nice of you to ascribe enough humanity to me
- >to ask for a clarification.
-
- It wasn't apparent that one was necessary. Partly for the reasons I
- described, and partly for the fact that from the amount of time you
- apparently spent on writing that post, which suggested that you had
- clarified yourself as much as you saw the need.
-
- As long as we're talking about humanity, it would have been nice of
- you to ascribe enough humanity to Mara to permit her to be fallible
- every now and then.
-
- --
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