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- From: pepke@dirac.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
- Newsgroups: soc.men,alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Living in a State of Siege
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 06:35:10 GMT
- References: <725981398@lear.cs.duke.edu> <1993Jan2.165409.5401@panix.com> <1993Jan2.183217.27632@wam.umd.edu> <1993Jan2.205430.10619@panix.com>
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- Organization: Florida State University, but I don't speak for them
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- In article <1993Jan2.205430.10619@panix.com> gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes:
- >It's a different issue. Education and jobs involving
- >mathematics are manifestly social constructions. Longevity
- >isn't (unless we socially knock a lot of people off).
-
- Education and jobs involving mathematics are manifestly social constructions.
- Modern medicine, which just happens to be about as old as the time period
- during which women have outlived men, is manifestly a social construction.
-
- Skill at mathematics may or may not be a social construction and may or may
- not be innate; it may even be a combination of the two. Longevity may or
- may not be a social construction and may or may not be innate; it may even
- be a combination of the two.
-
- Note if you can that I am not arguing for a particularly envrironmental or
- biological explanation for either phenomenon here.
-
- >May I recommend that you not rely on echolalia as a method
- >of argumentation?
-
- May I suggest that you occasionally take a break from your usual practice of
- only dealing with the most superficial interpretation of an opponent's
- argument? It really is tiresome.
-
- -EMP
-