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- From: mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini)
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism,soc.men,soc.women
- Subject: Re: Living in a State of Siege
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.170241.6784@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:02:41 GMT
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- holzman@d0gslb.fnal.gov (Daniel B. Holzman) writes:
- >mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini) writes:
-
- >> 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?
- >
- >No, but if you bring up Estonia every time someone mentions starving Africans
- >as if we should drop everything and pay attention to Estonia, you do give the
- >impression that you don't give two hoots about starving Africans.
-
- This is a good point. I will have to remember it next time I see the
- "Violence against women??? What about the much more serious problem of
- violence against MEN!!" objection raised.
-
- I believe you are right to say that the sword cuts both ways.
-
- >> 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?
- >
- >I'd love to not to have to argue about it. So how come whenever I bring up
- >tutoring illiterate teenagers, someone else asks how I can spend my time and
- >energy on that with all these illiterate adults running around.
-
- Halleluiah brother. I'm with you all the way.
-
- rini
-