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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: <1993Jan3.235640.24543@panix.com>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 23:56:40 GMT
- References: <7.27632@wam.umd.edu>> <1993Jan2.205430.10619@panix.com> <726043390@lear.cs.duke.edu>
- Organization: mydog in exile
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- In article <726043390@lear.cs.duke.edu> gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel) writes:
- | 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).
- |
- | Really?!
- |
- | Have you ever thought about the following possibilities:
-
- Et cetera. And then we can bring up a bunch of things
- that might reduce the length of women's lives. And then
- we can sort of work it back and forth like one of those
- old saws where one person had to be on each side, pulling
- it back and forth. As I said, in the first place, and
- could repeat ad nauseam but won't, it hasn't been shown
- that male longevity is reduced by social factors, much
- less what those factors might exactly be.
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