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- From: heath@athena.cs.uga.edu (Terrance Heath)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.president.clinton
- Subject: Re: Al Gore -VP Curse strkes again?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.215208.2396@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:52:08 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.163547.18320@csc.ti.com> <1992Nov16.181753.29925@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1992Nov17.204031.26258@dsd.es.com>
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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- In article <1992Nov17.204031.26258@dsd.es.com> sbender@navajo.dsd.es.com (Steve Bender) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.181753.29925@athena.cs.uga.edu>, heath@athena.cs.uga.edu (Terrance Heath) writes:
-
- [stuff about DQ's "Murphy Brown Speech" deleted]
-
- >|>
- >|> Yeah. Right. It wasn't an attack on single parents. Just two
- >|> days later Quayle's handlers said the VP was misunderstood. The
- >|> speech, they way, was a warning shot to deadbeat dads.
- >|> Funny. I read the text of that speech somewhere, and I don't
- >|> recall any mention of deadbeat Dads. Maybe it was subliminal, and
- >|> something that only republicans could pickup on.
- >
- >Review the text and you will also find that the speech did not
- >attack single parents.
- >
-
- Oh? And just who was he attacking? His tone certainly sounded
- as if he was meaning to point a wagging finger at someone.
- It is funny to me that conservatives will point fingers at
- fictional characters, instead of admitting what really killed their
- idea of the "traditional family". What killed the 50's style family
- was the increased amount of choice that has been given to women in
- areas ranging from careers, to family choices, to reproductive
- choices.
- When women (I should say white, middle-class women, because
- poor and black women have almost always worked) left the kitchen for
- the work force the family was never going to be the same. And the 50's
- attempt to force women who had tasted independence back into the
- kitchen didn't work. Nowaday's a woman doesn't HAVE to depend on a
- man for anything - food, shelter, even to have children (thanks to the
- advent of sperm banks). So what incentive does the traditional family
- offer? And how can we entice women back into this fold?
- Well, you can try taking away the choices that have made it
- easier for women to establish independence and make their own choices
- about their lives. You can try, but you're on your own. And most
- conservatives won't want to try it anyway. So what's to do?
-
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-
- --
- "Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act!"
- -Joseph Beam_
- Terrance Heath
- heath@athena.cs.uga.edu
-