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- From: shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
- Subject: Re: Al Gore -VP Curse strkes again?
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:00:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.222742.13500@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rchabot@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert J Chabot) writes:
- >Please illustrate other examples of conservatives pointing fingers at fictional
- >characters. The statement aappears to be a "generalization."
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- Quayle's constant harping about Hollywood's "cultural elite"
- is probably the best example.
-
- >1) Just *how* did the 50s "attempt to force" women into the kitchen??? The 50s
- >were a period of relative prosperity, esp. in the U.S. If women were
- >returning to "the kitchen", it was in response to the *economic* context--not
- >to the "50s attempt to force women into the kitchen."
-
- It was both. During the Second World War women went to work
- jobs that had traditionally been reserved for men. When the
- war ended and the soldiers returned, women were forced out
- of their jobs so that the men could have them back.
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- Hate is not a family value. Boycott Colorado
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- Melinda Shore - Cornell Theory Center - shore@tc.cornell.edu
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