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- From: phantasm@iastate.edu ()
- Subject: Equality...
- Message-ID: <phantasm.726033871@vincent1.iastate.edu>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 04:04:31 GMT
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- Someone asked if women would want equality were they equal all the time,
- for good and bad, etc... It seems to me that the bad parts of equality
- are greater than the suppression of the same...
-
- icsjm@asuacad.bitnet writes:
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- > definately the term "equal" needs defining......let's look at it from a
- > military point of view.....yes, a woman can fly a jet as good as a man....
-
- Better...
-
- > yes a woman can sail a ship as good as a man....but NO a woman could
- > participate in the jungles of some south eastern country. Maybe as a
- > nurse or medic, but not in the jungle working in teams....especially
- > the work I did in Viet Nam......a womans survival rate would probably
- > be about 2 or 3 seconds.
-
- There are women today who could... There were women who could have done your
- work in Nam better than you did... And with proper training, there are no
- reasons why women would be poorer soldiers than men...
-
- phantasm
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