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- From: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: Living in a State of Siege
- X-To: MICHAEL
- Organization: The Zoo of Ids
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:31:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.011716.17141@zooid.guild.org>
- Sender: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
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- michael@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Michael Stanley) writes...
- >Hmm. I see some slight of hand. Lets attempt to see through it...
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Hmmm....so do I...
-
- >Dan S.:
- >>Diane:
-
- >>> 2) Who does the majority of bullying in school?
- >>> - Boys
- >>Who reinforces their socialized roles of toughness?
- >>- girls/women
-
- >*BEEP* Wrong answer.
-
- >Interesting. I would have said boys/men reinforce socialized roles of
- >toughness. That's how it was when I grew up. Most of the girls/women
- >I met thought the boys/men were kind of stupid for what they did. That
- >is when they weren't shocked at some of the brutality of it.
-
-
- *BEEP* Wrong Answer!
-
- Sure, the girls/women might have been shocked by it, but did you ever see
- them dating the non-athletic bookworms who didn't "shock" them? No, they
- mostly seemed to prefer the athletes. Apparently, the same things that
- "shock" them, also seem to attract them. The question is ... WHY?
-
- Believe me, if you've ever been to high school, which I am sure you have,
- you'd know *just* how popular our athletes were. These are the same
- "brutes" who would call me "nerd" one minute and then the next minute
- I'd see them arm-in-arm with a girl. I was jealous, and *almost* thought
- of abandoning my studies to concentrate on athletics, but somehow it just
- didn't happen. :-) Of course, I ended up getting the last laugh, almost -
- I don't recall having seen that many of them when I was in university...
-
- So before telling us that "macho" standards of athleticism are only a
- male-only-originated concept, realise for whom these shows of strength
- are ultimately directed.
-
-
- >>> 4) Who legislated draft registration?
- >>> - legislative bodies which are comprised overwhelmingly of men
- >>Who voted for these legislators?
- >>- men and women
-
- >This WOULD be a point if we could have voted all women into office.
- >Unfortunately that wasn't possible. So this is not a point.
-
- Oh? Why not? Sure, I'll hold my breath waiting for Diane Feinstein to
- propose a motion to expand the draft to include women....
-
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