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- From: mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini)
- Subject: Re: Mysogynist Bullshit
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.025855.18192@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:58:55 GMT
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- muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
- >payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
-
- [on using men as the medical model...]
-
- >>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"?
- ^^^^^^^^
-
- Wow, Muffy. You've sent me to the latin dictionary on that one!
-
- (Let's see... I've got "suer: one who initiates legal proceedings
- seeking damages" and "pior: worse".)
-
- Anyway, I think you are completely right. There is no way to decide,
- from simply studying men's bodies alone, which gender is the worse suer.
-
- ;)
-
- rini
-