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- From: hillyard@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Sean Edward Hillyard,F7 Clark,50649,)
- Subject: Re: Sexist and 50/50 (Was: Elle MacPherson causes rape?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.015416.7985@msc.cornell.edu>
- Originator: hillyard@msc2.msc.cornell.edu
- Sender: news@msc.cornell.edu
- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
- References: <1992Nov20.233240.17541@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:54:16 GMT
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- From article <1992Nov20.233240.17541@midway.uchicago.edu>, by mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini):
- [...]
- >
- > To the point, are there situations you can think of that exist today
- > where men and women participate in something equally and where the very
- > fact of 50/50 participation is evidence of sexism? (For clarity, let's set
- > aside the whole idea of "forced quotas" etc.) I must admit that I'm
- > having a hard time coming up with examples to prove your point.
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- How about professional tennis, golf and the olympics. Or even
- college athletics where the courts have begun requiring (a Univ. of
- Washington ruling comes to mind) that a certain percentage of participants
- have to be women. Here we have a clear case of a big advantage for a certain
- sex and the solution is not to have open tryouts with the best, regardless
- of sex, making the team, but instead a fixed percentage required to be women.
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- SEH
-