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- From: sfjr@wam.umd.edu (Steve Russell)
- Subject: Re: Emotional Cripples and Women in Combat
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.185617.11550@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:56:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.105559.1@mdcbbs.com> royce@mdcbbs.com (Royce D. Myers EDS/Unigraphics) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov12.192127.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>, psyctwo1@cc.newcastle.edu.au (PSYCTWO1) writes:
- >> Not so much that, but I for one am sick of hearing references about
- >> "the boys and their toys" in regards to war, and then hearing that women
- >> want to be able to fight as well. To me it signifies that the girls also
- >> want to play with the toys, and so lets ditch the sexist (IMHO) term "the
- >> boys and their toys".
- >
- >Reminds me of something Cokie (sp?) Roberts once said on NPR:
- >
- >'We used to talk about our "boys overseas" during wartime, but [during the Gulf
- >War] we now talk about our "men and women overseas". I guess, as usual, it
- >takes women to turn boys into men.'
- >
- >--
- >Royce Myers
- >royce@mdcbbs.com
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- These quotes just prove that people with mentalities with room for improvement
- come in both sexes, despite what esstialist feminists think.
-
- Steve R
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