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- From: gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch)
- Newsgroups: soc.men,alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Living in a State of Siege
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.165409.5401@panix.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 16:54:09 GMT
- References: <31@lear.cs.duke.edu>> <1993Jan1.032047.18124@panix.com> <725981398@lear.cs.duke.edu>
- Organization: mydog in exile
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- gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel) writes:
- | ...
- | 4) Is not it interesting that when women are the losing side (e.g.
- | more men learn math), the default assumption is that society
- | is to be blamed, and the poor weak women need some compensation,
- | but when men are the losing side, the "pro equality people" are
- | ready with long explanation why it is just biology...
-
- I'm not saying that the possible social causes of the difference
- should not be investigated. But the biological element should
- not be discounted either. In other words, there's probably not
- enough hard information around -- except, of course, if you want
- to use the issue for propaganda.
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