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- From: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
- Newsgroups: soc.feminism
- Subject: The _Varsity_ Break-In...
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 18:14:43 GMT
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- clh@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes...
- CL> In article <1g5jbiINNhtg@agate.berkeley.edu>, bickis@skmath3.usask.ca (M. Bi
- CL> ) writes:
- CL> >
- CL> > Lepine's actions were an anomaly. They are not something likely
- CL> > to recur.
-
- CL> What about the death-threats which women at (some Canadian university)
- CL> received last October following a break-in and theft of their files
- CL> (and photos)? [reference, recent McLean's article on universities in
- CL> Canada].
-
- CL> As the job market gets tighter, and there are more successful women
- CL> who may be perceived as "taking my job [place in an engineering
- CL> class]", I do envision this kind of event recurring. :-(
-
-
- Actually, Chris, I think that you're referring to the break-in at the offices
- of the University of Toronto _Varsity_ newspaper, which had recently published
- a supplement on female sexuality which included, among other things, an article
- >from a woman who discussed sex with vegetables and fruits, and said (this isn't
- paraphrasing of her point) 'I'd rather fuck vegetables than any MAN'.
-
- Now while I am NOT defending the break-in, I am saying that in this case, the
- cause was *not* the perception that "women are taking our places," as you
- hypothesised, but rather that "feminists are lesbians who hate men". Again,
- while I do not agree with the actions of the perpetrators, I think that it
- is somewhat important to at least clarify the motives (and as I have said
- before, even the motives of *insane* people are important).
-
- Even so, while I would say that I took offense to a woman saying that men are
- sexually inferior to vegetables, as though we should be, to paraphrase Martin
- Terman's recent message, shaping up to some sort of ideal of length and eternal
- erection, I believe that breaking into a newspaper office and threatening
- feminist members of the masthead with death, is NOT a justified reaction *at
- all*.
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