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- From: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: Freedom Of Choice For Men is no more "un)family" than Pro-Choicers!
- Note: I am adding a.a.i., so that Hillel may defend the charges levelled his way
- X-To: GORDON FITCH
- Organization: The Zoo of Ids
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:15:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.120712.1199@zooid.guild.org>
- Sender: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
- Lines: 97
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- gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes...
- >goid@zooid.guild.org (Will Steeves) actually responded to
- >my complaints about men's choice.
-
- Yes, it takes a while, but I get around to it...
-
-
- >gf:
- >| GF>I've come up with a general solution -- in fact, two of
- >| GF>them -- which would get unwilling fathers off the hook.
- >| GF>They are (1) to communize (or if you prefer, socialize)
- >| GF>child support; and (2) to use the method used by (I
- >| GF>believe) the Navahos, who allocate certain communal
- >| GF>resources to mothers with children (in the case of the
- >| GF>Navahos, arable land).
-
- >ws:
- >| These are, I would admit, fairly revolutionary ideas, and as such, I would
- >| not be quick to dismiss them out of hand, though you have dismissed much
- >| of what has been proposed by the Freedom Of Choice for Men advocates on
- >| the net.
-
- >What? I said it was politically unrealistic in the
- >current environment, and that it didn't take into
- >consideration wider issues. Does anyone deny either
- >of these propositions?
-
- No, but it *does* seem like you have been denying most of what we say.
-
-
- >| GF>(Or by anyone else, actually; as I said, the question
- >| GF>doesn't seem to interest any of you. At 53, I can
- >| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- >ws:
- >| Not all all... Just because we didn't come up with *your* ideas, does not
- >| mean that we do not have ideas of our own. Do not judge us by *your* own
- >| standards, please.
-
- >What are they? I'm breathless with anticipation. This
- >is the first response to any of my articles in this thread
- >that suggests that anyone has any ideas at all about what
- >happens to the children in the new world proposed. The
- >remainder have studiously ignored the question, unless I
- >missed something.
-
- Well, I haven't seen the Pro-Women's Choice side saying much about
- what happens to the children who just won't make it to the new world
- which *they* have proposed and won... I just felt like tossing that in,
- seeing as you are accusing *us* of being myopic about "children".
-
-
- >gf:
- >| GF>count on some of you to keep the economy going so I
- >| GF>can get my social security and dividend checks as I
- >| GF>hobble around twenty or thirty years hence; but for
- >| GF>_you_, there will evidently be no next generation.
- >| GF>Good luck!)
-
- >ws:
- >| Excuse me, Gordon, but I believe that you have always known that Pro-Women's
- >| Choice advocates are NOT against having children (not generally, at any
- >| rate), but are in favour of CHOOSING when to do so. This is the same with
- >| the Freedom Of Choice for Men movement. ...
-
- >As I pointed out in at least two previous articles,
- >any middle-class type who had children under the world
- >arrangement proposed by "men's choice", at least the
- >Hillel Gazit version, would be crazy; they'd lose the
- >rat race.
-
- Why? What's so dangerous about *both* parents having children which
- they *both* want, rather than which *just* one parent wants while the
- other is forced?
-
-
- >The effect of even _present_ mechanisms of support, or
- >rather, the lack of them, have apparently brought the
- >birth-rate below the population replacement level.
-
- Apparently, you don't see any problem with forcing men to support
- unwanted children to bolster the population, but I guess that you'd
- draw the line at forcing women to stay pregnant? Well, though, that
- would CERTAINLY solve any population problems, now wouldn't it?
-
- (BTW, I was *not* suggestion that abortion be outlawed... Chuckle for
- the sarcasm impaired...)
-
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