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- From: cgates@mitre.org (Curt Gates)
- Subject: Re: Living in a State of Siege
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.155337.9697@linus.mitre.org>
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- Organization: The MITRE Corporation
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:53:37 GMT
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- In article <MUFFY.92Dec21154021@remarque.berkeley.edu>
- muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
- > every time someone talks about the violence that
- > is practiced against women, some people here start shouting about the
- > violence that happens to men
-
- Believe the original statement was to the effect that *white* men do not
- understand the feelings of women for whom violence is a major issue in
- their lives. I don t know where Dave found the original post, but I do
- take issue with a racist approach to a gender issue, if violence to the
- person is indeed an gender issue.
-
- > No one has *denied* that men have
- > problems, those are simply not necessarily the problems that many
- > feminists are concerned about.
-
- Are feminists concerned about violence against their male children?
-