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- From: gazit@duke.cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
- Newsgroups: soc.men,alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Mysogynist Bullshit
- Message-ID: <725976367@lear.cs.duke.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 12:06:08 GMT
- References: .INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec30.171309.17092@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Followup-To: soc.men,alt.feminism
- Organization: The Immoral Minority
- Lines: 42
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- In article <1992Dec30.171309.17092@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov>
- julie@eddie.jpl.nasa.gov (Julie Kangas) writes:
-
- >I think it's exactly that -- women have to be twice as sick to be taken
- >seriously. Of course, once you're that ill treatment is much harder
- >and takes longer.
-
- So how comes that men, on average, die 7 years younger?
-
- Anyway, while your theory makes a lot of sense, if one just ignores
- reality, here is a piece of reality from CBS News, 1/1/1993
-
- #It is like so many other over crowded county health care clinics
- #you see the same faces full of anxiety need and fatigue.
- #
- #The people who can not pay, who don't have insurance.
- #
- #What make Lee(sp?) county different is
- #the faces you don't see - men and old people.
- #Pregnant women, mothers and dependent children are seen.
- #All others are been turned away,
- #unless they were patients hear before they new policy became effective.
- #Practically speaking health care rationing is a fact in a lot of places
- #but in some Florida counties now they made it official that
- #all patients are not to be considered equal.
- #
- #Some state officials call it
- #The Titanic model, women and children first.
-
- (Note that mothers are seen, but not fathers...)
-
- (Note also that women have the world records in swimming for the longest
- time (more body fat), but the law is "women and children first...")
-
- >Julie
-
- Hillel gazit@cs.duke.edu
-
- "In my experience, the usual modus operandi is to demand special protection in
- as loud a voice as possible. Then, when special protection is given, turn
- the volume up to 11 and complain that it is patronizing. It's a fun game, and
- it works over and over again." -- Eric Pepke
-