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- From: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: Male Choice Revisited
- X-To: MICHAL LEAH PERI
- Organization: The Zoo of Ids
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:59:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.012245.17920@zooid.guild.org>
- Sender: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
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- peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes...
- >Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- >>peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes...
- >>MLP> beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
-
- >>MLP> >In article <1fpjdnINNbkq@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu:
- >>MLP> OK, let's hear your less "parochial" explanation of how a man
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>MLP> could miss noticing that his sex partner is full-term pregnant.
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>MLP> (remember: we're not talking about abortion -- we're talking
- >>MLP> about a man's needing to be formally notified so that he can
- >>MLP> claim his ofspring from the clutches of the adoption ward)
-
- >>Michal, I believe that the reason why Don used the word "parochial," was that
- >>in many debates over situations where a man and a woman are involved, you only
- >>seem to allude to situations where *the man* is the one at fault, ie., in this
- >>case, you spoke about the man "fleeing the scene," this providing an
- >>explanation why he would not know that he had fathered a child.
-
- >>But, there *is* also the possibility that the mother chose to "flee the scene"
- >>in order to prevent his finding out about the child.
-
- >Right you are, Will. My apologies to Don.
- >But I really don't see how that can be prevented.
- >Women do, in America, have the right of free travel.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- GIVE ME A BREAK, MICHAL! Nobody is disagreeing with this!
-
- See below...
-
- >>MLP> >>A full-term pregnancy is pretty obvious.
- >>MLP> >>(painfully obvious, one might say!) One would think that the man would
- >>MLP> >>notice it.
- >>MLP> >You're saying a man has to rely on "word of mouth" to know that
- >>MLP> >he's a father. If he hasn't heard from his friends that he's a
- >>MLP> >father, then he must have "fled the scene," and can't possibly
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>MLP> >be interested in his child.
-
-
- Well, Michal, *MEN* have the right to free travel as well, but you seem
- to have a problem with this, in this particular case, as you have
- concluded that his choice to travel freely, indicates a lack of interest
- in his child.
-
- Besides, it could also be argued that a woman who "flees the scene" can't
- possibly be interested in her child, since she is depriving him/her of a
- possibly willing father!
-
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