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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:20:59 EST
- From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <92359.012059SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Understanding
- References: <MUFFY.92Dec22111050@remarque.berkeley.edu>
- <Bzoq6n.24ut@austin.ibm.com> <MUFFY.92Dec22164023@remarque.berkeley.edu>
- <BzpwpK.24xG@austin.ibm.com> <MUFFY.92Dec23080635@remarque.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <MUFFY.92Dec23080635@remarque.berkeley.edu>,
- muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) says:
- >In article <BzpwpK.24xG@austin.ibm.com> alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R.
- >Weiss) writes:
- >>In article <MUFFY.92Dec22164023@remarque.berkeley.edu>
- >muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
- >>[stuff heartlessly condemned to the bit bucket]
- >
- >What does this have to do with anything? Last I heard, we were talking
- >about feminism. Now you suddenly pull in gender-neutral language. What
- >does that have to do with people accepting someone calling themselves a
- >feminist?
- >Muffy
- >--
- >Muffy Barkocy | ~Can you tell me how much bleeding/it
- >muffy@mica.berkeley.edu | takes to fill a word with meaning and/
- >"amorous inclinations"? Aha! I'm | how much how much death it takes/to give
- >not "not straight," I'm *inclined*.| a slogan breath?~ - Bruce Cockburn
-
- May I venture to sugguest that what is actually being talked about
- is priotization of goals?
-
- Alan (and I, in a previous post) have been making sugguestions about
- facilitating communication. You're talking about confronting a stereotype
- and maintaining a meme that women have the right to define themselves.
-
- Kinda doubt there is real basis for argument there, just some
- different axioms.
-
- Graydon
-