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- From: bowers@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Al Bowers)
- Subject: Re: A social problem
- In-Reply-To: jeffh@nonsuch.EBay.Sun.COM's message of 20 Nov 1992 01:57:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <BOWERS.92Nov23115159@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal.
- References: <BxzK4u.41y@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1ehgldINNnqg@male.EBay.Sun.COM>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:52:04 GMT
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- In article <1ehgldINNnqg@male.EBay.Sun.COM> jeffh@nonsuch.EBay.Sun.COM (Jeff Huntington) writes:
- >In article 41y@news.cso.uiuc.edu, andy@hendrix.ece.uiuc.edu (Andy Bereson) writes:
- >> In article <2670163@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>, bsmith@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Brian Smith) writes:
- >> |> In rec.boats, jfh@cs.brown.edu (John F. Hughes) writes:
-
- >> |>Any suggestions? Any ideas *why* these people cannot imagine a healthy
- >> |>woman in her 30's rowing a boat?
-
- >> |> If you make an issue of it by making some smart answer that is
- >> |> intended to teach them a lesson, you will not have achieved nothing,
- >> |> you will have achieved a negative affect. If they are leather necks,
- >> |> nothing you say will make them change their minds; if they are not,
- >> |> you will spoil their day and they will wonder why.
-
- >> This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ is a
- >> fine example of the sexist attitudes that the original post was trying
- >> to do his share to eliminate. It is the same attitude that leads to
- >> debacles such as the hill-thomas affair.
-
- >This thread has gone quite a bit far afield for rec.boats; I am not sure it
- >belongs here any more. But, since it is here, let me put on my nomex foul
- >weather gear and get ready for the fire storm. :-)
-
- Prepare the garppling hooks and bring on the grape shot!
-
- >Lighten Up! This society's current obsession with sexism is getting
- >in the way of far too many people feeling good about themself and
- >enjoying life. When people go around with a chip on their shoulder
- >looking for things that they can cite as examples of something they
- >think should upset them, they have lost some of the joy in living.
-
- Thta's very good. Very well put. Many points for style.
-
- >From my experience, most women want to (and do) ride most of the time.
- >On the other hand, few women that are around boats have never rowed.
-
- My family is in the process of figuring out which recreational rowing
- shell to build/buy. My wife is quite interested, and I used to row
- alot. It's kinda fun to be able to _know_ how to feather a paddle.
- And my wife was a canoe instructor one summer at a summer camp. She
- is also not bad on the tiller of our sailboat. I wished she would do
- more of it. I've offered to act as shore crew for her and a female
- friend of ours who is also quite adept at sailing our boat.
-
- >When my wife and I were racing dinghys, I wanted her to be the
- >skipper. The reasons for this were that she weighs half of what I do,
- >so it would be better to have my weight forward, and I could hike out
- >harder. Besides that, I am somewhat stronger (but not nearly twice as
- >strong) :-) and so I could do the hard work of crew better.
-
- Maybe you need a boat where the crew and helm can hike equally. EG:
- double trap (OD 14, I 14, Hobie 16); or no trap (Tasar, Highlander,
- Lighting, Thistle).
-
-
-
- --
- "But the fact that a 1938 touring bodied Alfa Romeo I once had is
- worth $1 million sometimes bothers the hell out of me. It's a
- personal problem." -Phil Hill
- Al Bowers bowers@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov
- Iaido Takamine Hobie Rossignol Alfa Romeo Ducati (DOD #900)
-