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- From: mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini)
- Subject: Re: Living in a State of Siege
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.172703.13719@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:27:03 GMT
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- rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
-
- >For every woman that is the victim of violence there are three men that
- >are the victims of violence. Since "we" see a special need for action
- >against violence against women, but not against men, the natural conclusion
- >is that "we" feel that violence against a woman is more than three times
- >as serious as violence against a man.
- >
- >Do you not see that this sort of viewpoint is perceived as amounting to
- >saying, "Women are more important, more human than men. Their hurts matter
- >more. Women are entitled; men are not."
-
- So if I give money to an aid organization for Estonia, and don't write
- a check of comparable magnitude to Care's program in Somalia, do you
- think I'm implying that I don't give two hoots about starving Africans?
- If I decide to tutor adults who can't read, do you think I'm implying
- that all the other people in the world who can benefit from tutoring
- are simply "worth less" to me than illiterate adults? If I lobby for
- air bags to be installed in all cars, does that imply that I'm against
- seat belts and secretly working for their demise?
-
- Hmm. I have an idea. If I think it is important to tutor illiterate
- adults, I can do that. If you think it is more important to spend your
- time tutoring illiterate teenagers, you can do that. And if someone
- else thinks it is even *more* important to tutor kids before they go
- to school, *they* can do *that*. Now as I see it, we're all doing
- Good Things. Why do we have to argue about who really needs the
- tutoring most?
-
- rini
-