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- From: gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch)
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Freedom Of Choice For Men is *no more "un)family"* than Pro-Choicers!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.013523.29135@panix.com>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 01:35:23 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.120211.1984@zooid.guild.org>
- Organization: mydog in exile
- Lines: 76
-
- goid@zooid.guild.org (Will Steeves) actually responded to
- my complaints about men's choice.
-
- gf:
- | GF>I've come up with a general solution -- in fact, two of
- | GF>them -- which would get unwilling fathers off the hook.
- | GF>They are (1) to communize (or if you prefer, socialize)
- | GF>child support; and (2) to use the method used by (I
- | GF>believe) the Navahos, who allocate certain communal
- | GF>resources to mothers with children (in the case of the
- | GF>Navahos, arable land).
-
- ws:
- | These are, I would admit, fairly revolutionary ideas, and as such, I would
- | not be quick to dismiss them out of hand, though you have dismissed much
- | of what has been proposed by the Freedom Of Choice for Men advocates on
- | the net.
-
- What? I said it was politically unrealistic in the
- current environment, and that it didn't take into
- consideration wider issues. Does anyone deny either
- of these propositions?
-
- gf:
- | GF>I don't have the bandwidth to read this group as
- | GF>thoroughly as I would like, but I have seen _no_
- | GF>solutions offered by the, um, unfathers' movement.
-
- ws:
- | This is not fair at all, Gordon. Should I refer to Pro-Women's Choice
- | advocates as the (Un)Mother's movement?
-
- Be my guest.
-
- | GF>(Or by anyone else, actually; as I said, the question
- | GF>doesn't seem to interest any of you. At 53, I can
- | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- ws:
- | Not all all... Just because we didn't come up with *your* ideas, does not
- | mean that we do not have ideas of our own. Do not judge us by *your* own
- | standards, please.
-
- What are they? I'm breathless with anticipation. This
- is the first response to any of my articles in this thread
- that suggests that anyone has any ideas at all about what
- happens to the children in the new world proposed. The
- remainder have studiously ignored the question, unless I
- missed something.
-
- gf:
- | GF>count on some of you to keep the economy going so I
- | GF>can get my social security and dividend checks as I
- | GF>hobble around twenty or thirty years hence; but for
- | GF>_you_, there will evidently be no next generation.
- | GF>Good luck!)
-
- ws:
- | Excuse me, Gordon, but I believe that you have always known that Pro-Women's
- | Choice advocates are NOT against having children (not generally, at any
- | rate), but are in favour of CHOOSING when to do so. This is the same with
- | the Freedom Of Choice for Men movement. ...
-
- As I pointed out in at least two previous articles,
- any middle-class type who had children under the world
- arrangement proposed by "men's choice", at least the
- Hillel Gazit version, would be crazy; they'd lose the
- rat race.
-
- The effect of even _present_ mechanisms of support, or
- rather, the lack of them, have apparently brought the
- birth-rate below the population replacement level.
- --
-
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