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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: An argument for better sex ed
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.071526.27263@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:15:26 GMT
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- References: <skj3dm=@rpi.edu> <1993Jan22.232838.23349@noao.edu>
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- In <1993Jan22.232838.23349@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >From article <skj3dm=@rpi.edu>, by cookc@aix.rpi.edu (rocker):
- >>>>Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
- >>>>From: chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu (Stephen A Chaney)
- >>>>Subject: Final comment re: Why we go for non-black women:
- >>>>Organization: California State University Sacramento
- >>>>Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 22:42:21 GMT
- >>>>
- >>>>If you have, after buying three cars from the same company, found
- >>>>they're all lemons, why would you listen to anyone who would try to
- >>>>convince you to buy a fourth?
- >>
- >> To clarify, it should be noted that the "lemons" Chaney refers to here
- >> are African-American women.
- >
- >People have their reasons for their preferences in a mate, Cathi,
- >and maybe they're legitamate reasons.
-
- That may well be, but discriminating on the basis of race is racist.
- Airplane-boy's comments are not only racist, but misogynistic, since
- it indicates a view of women as mass-produced objects, rather than as
- individuals.
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- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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