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- From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
- Subject: Re: The Melmon Method (was Dworkin)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.195344.12676@netcom.com>
- Organization: People's Front of Judea
- References: <168C5CC0E.SURGDM@mizzou1.missouri.edu> <mattm-221292152459@mcmelmon.apple.com> <1haaafINNml2@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:53:44 GMT
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- In article <1haaafINNml2@fido.asd.sgi.com> pauli@sgi.com (Paul Isaacs) writes:
- >In article <mattm-221292152459@mcmelmon.apple.com> mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
- >>
- >>The feministas have been tripping over themselves to come up with
- >>these inane - yet 'controversial' - gimicks. My favorite:
- >>
- >> A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
- >>
- >
- >Where did this line come from?
- >[...]
- >Does it have a prior history in the "feminista" movement?
-
- I've heard the line attributed to Gloria Steinem. It certainly
- goes back long before the U2 song. I think the canonical form is
- "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle". Matt
- Groening (in _Life_in_Hell_) paraphrased it as "A man without a
- woman is like a fish run over by a bicycle".
-
-
- --
- Andrew Solovay
- "I know that, in America and under capitalism,
- I am the freest woman in history."
- --- Camille Paglia
-