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- From: goid@zooid.guild.org (Will Steeves)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,soc.men,alt.dads-rights
- Subject: Pro-Life Leaders? Does their gender REALLY matter? Or only if male?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.120127.1918@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 03:04:00 GMT
- Sender: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
- Organization: The Zoo of Ids
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- sbishop@desire.wright.edu writes...
- SB>In article <1992Dec12.222611.95075@watson.ibm.com>, margoli@watson.ibm.com (L
- SB>y Margolis) writes:
- SB>> In <1992Dec12.040358.6377@zooid.guild.org> Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.o
- SB> writes:
- SB>>>dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter) writes...
- SB>>>DP> Evidence? Other sources posted here over the years claim that far
- SB>>>DP> more women than men are activists on both sides of this issue.
- SB>>>
- SB>>>Hmmmm...I'm not sure about that claim. If you believe the quotes of some r
- SB>er
- SB>>>misandrist "Pro-Choice" activists who yell the following about the "Pro-Lif
- SB>>>movement:
- SB>>>
- SB>>>"4-6-8-10 Why are all your leaders men?"
- SB>>>
- SB>>>....you'd almost believe that there were more *men* in the "Pro-Life" movem
- SB>,
- SB>>>at the very least.
- SB>>
- SB>> Why would you believe that? The chant is talking about leaders, and you're
- SB>> talking about members.
-
- SB>Just take a quick look at the Pro-Lifers. Every time I've seen a demo on
- SB>TV, the spokesMAN for the group is just that, a man. The leaders of the
- SB>local Pro-life group are local businessMEN. When you see picketers at the
- SB>local clinics, a large percentage of the group are men.
-
- SB>Yep, looks like a large percentage of the Pro-life leaders are men, all right
-
-
- I disagree, especially given the strength of legions of many primarily women-
- oriented Pro-Life groups like REAL Women and Feminists For Life, to name a few.
-
- But even if this WERE true, would it *really* matter? If it did, would I be
- somehow be more morally able to complain that "Most Anti-Men's Choice are
- women!".
-
- Indeed, it seems highly sexist to complain either way.
-
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