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- From: mch@doc.ic.ac.uk (Mike C Holderness)
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism,soc.women,soc.men
- Subject: Re: Critique of Gimbutas' "Idyllic Goddess" Claims
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 17:53:56 -0000
- Organization: c/o Dept Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- Keywords: love peace justice loss-of-power
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- In {something or other noted above} Rohit Parikh wrote:
-
- > The crucial thing to me is to ask, how can we work out a world order in
- > which men and women can live together in love and friendship, in which
- > biological differences are respected, but not made into a prison for
- > anyone? These are all possible goals and why not we, men AND women,
- > work towards them instead of quarreling?
- >
-
- Well, we have to try. But there are bound to be quarrels: there will be men
- who feel they're losing somthing. Many different things: for your average
- Joe in the bar, perhaps the "right" to view everything female as sexual prey.
- (Why do such men beat up on pretty boys with long hair, a risk becoming
- more relevant to young men in London these days? "Cor, I don't half fancy
- that... OH SHIT! GRRRRR!" [Me? No, I never look at people in bars, this
- is based on reported experiences only, honest....])
-
- For your average Joe in the abstract space of the Internet, it might be more
- appropriate to think about giving up the "right" to be considered the
- species prototype (with woman as exception -- go read anatomy, psychology,
- soc.feminism...). Lots more follows from that... doesn't it, boys?
-
- Dons flame suit and ducks...
- Mike Holderness = mch@doc.ic.ac.uk
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