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- From: muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Mysogynist Bullshit
- Date: 21 Dec 92 11:47:57
- Organization: Natural Language Incorporated
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- References: <1992Dec10.142534.16313@cs.cornell.edu>
- <1992Dec21.000615.154@netcom.com>
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- In-reply-to: payner@netcom.com's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 00:06:15 GMT
-
- In article <1992Dec21.000615.154@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec10.142534.16313@cs.cornell.edu> jean@cs.cornell.edu (Jean M. Petrosino) writes:
- >>And Robert Shaeffer - don't give me that sociobiological crap about men being
- >>innately superior to women because of testosterone. We don't know the true
- >>capacities of the female body because medical science finds it much more
- >>interesting to study male anatomy and simply generalize their findings to
- >>female anatomy.
-
- >Bullshit, it is just easier and simpler. No monthly changes to take into
- >account, and no pregnancies to complicate long term studies.
-
- So, what are you saying here, Rich? That it is, in fact, true, that
- rather than studying women's bodies, scientists have simply generalized
- form men's bodies? Do you think that that is adequate information to
- determine which is "suerpior"?
-
- Muffy
- --
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- Muffy Barkocy | ~Can you tell me how much bleeding/it
- muffy@mica.berkeley.edu | takes to fill a word with meaning and/
- "amorous inclinations"? Aha! I'm | how much how much death it takes/to give
- not "not straight," I'm *inclined*.| a slogan breath?~ - Bruce Cockburn
-