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- From: rhb@world.std.COM (Robert H Brueckner)
- Subject: Re: Why I will *not* be wearing a white ribbon...*ever*
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:43:00 GMT
- References: <92Dec15.072001edt.11758@zooid.guild.org>
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- In article <92Dec15.072001edt.11758@zooid.guild.org> goid@zooid.guild.ORG (Will Steeves) writes:
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- QUOTE
- I was very sad that these women had been the victims of some insane
- anger toward women in general, but when I started to notice that
- the country's mainstream feminist organisations (NACSW, CACSW,
- WLEAF, etc.) were USING this sad event as a method of labelling all
- those with philosophical objections with certain aspects of
- feminism, as *sympathisers* of this raving lunatic (ie., "He killed
- fourteen women, in an 'anti-feminist' rage"), and furthermore, that
- he was *not* insane, but was just acting out "the anger and hatred
- that all men harbour against women," as a message that all men are
- to some degree misognyist and "potentially violent against women,"
- I was absolutely INFURIATED!
-
- My feeling was therefore - let us mourn and remember the victims,
- NOT use them as some sort of propaganda tool in order to send out
- the message that ALL men are "misogynist to some degree"
-
- END QUOTE
-
- I agree. I think you could equally say that all women are misandrist
- to some degree. And I think this incident says more about the need for
- gun control than the need for non-violent men (the vast majority, I
- believe) to search their souls and feel shame.
-
- RB
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- |"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who |
- | have loved it." -- George Santayana // Opinions expressed here, when |
- | clear and persuasive, are my own. --Rob Brueckner (rhb@world.std.com) |
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