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- From: dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
- Newsgroups: soc.women,alt.feminism,soc.men
- Subject: Re: Practise what you preach? (was:what is sexist?)
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 04:27:29 GMT
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- In article <MUFFY.92Nov17142550@anableps.berkeley.edu>, muffy@anableps.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
- > In article <1ebp37INNdch@transfer.stratus.com> dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
- > > Oh, you're not one of the avowed feminists who feel men shouldn't post to
- > > soc.women (unless they agree with feminist viewpoints), since soc.women is
- > > "womyn space"?
- >
- > Exactly.
-
- Okay, I'll remember this for future reference.
-
- > > The problem is that it isn't feasible for me to determine
- > > which set of feminist opinions you hold, other than those you have explictly
- > > stated.
- >
- > Well, it seems to me that it would make more sense for you to not make
- > assumptions about my views based on *other* people's views. I
- > understand, though, that it is much more convenient for you to do so,
- > since you can then accuse me (and other feminists, by the same method)
- > of being hypocritical when I do not adhere to SOMEONE ELSE's expressed
- > views.
-
- Nope, try again. Where did I accuse you of any hypocrisy? I made an (apparently)
- unwarranted assumption about your views on something and was corrected. However,
- since I have seen men take grief from women for not knowing that something would
- offend them (e.g. compliments from strangers on one's appearance, which most women
- here seem to find offensive, but many men, if not most wouldn't); I was only pointing
- out that sometimes assuming a default is right and sometimes it is wrong - with way to
- to tell.
-
- > > I suppose it was unreasonable of me to assume [...] My error.
- >
- > Yup.
-
- Thank you.
-
- > Muffy
- > --
- >
- > Muffy Barkocy muffy@mica.berkeley.edu
- > ~Weavers' fingers flying on the loom/patterns shift too fast to be
- > discerned/all these years of thinking/ended up like this/in front
- > of all this beauty/understanding nothing~ - Bruce Cockburn
-
- --
-
- #include <std_disclaimer.h>
-
- Dan S.
-