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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: Bishop Flames (Re: Indiana Welfare)
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:54:12 GMT
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- woody@rock.concert.net (Woody Muller) writes:
- >Don Beaver writes:
- >> I regard this group as a forum for all people, men and women,
- >> CP's and NCP's and parents and nonparents, to discuss their opinions
- >> of child support levels and enforcement-related issues.
- >>
- >> If you would like to start alt.child-support.sue_and_lurkers_only,
- >> be my guest.
- >
- >Don,
- > With all due respect, I think the recent "Pony Wars" have undermined
- >the credibility of this group's charter. There have been some pretty
- >personal attacks on folks who *happen* to be in a position to spend
- >the child-support dads like us pay. And it looks a lot like *happening*
- >to be a CP woman is what ticks you off toward a given poster.
- >
- > Extreme positions are not always in the best interests of potential
- >parents who are trying to present themselves as "reasonable." They
- >tend to make the holders of the extreme positions look like "kooks."
-
-
- Woody,
-
- I don't hide my "extremist" opinion that CP's are immensely favored
- by the system, nor that women are immensely favored by the system.
- Nor do I hide my opinion that NCP's should be permitted to pay for
- luxuries on their own and should not pay indirect alimony.
-
- "Happening to be a CP woman is what ticks you off" is pretty
- unfair of you, Woody. Being a CP is pretty well correlated with
- being a woman. On this group, the supporters of child-support,
- family law, and enforcement tend to be the CP's, not the NCP's.
-
- Yes, family law and its enforcement bother me. If, coincidentally,
- its supporters tend to be women CP's, then that is itself a telling
- coincidence.
-
-
- But let me conclude with the first pony-posting that this "kook" made:
-
- "Frankly, I held my tongue because I don't know the details of this
- anecdote and it would sound cold to deny a little girl her pony.
-
- But I have to agree with Alan. Ponies and trips to Florida
- are not part of the necessities of life."
-
- Don Beaver, 30 Nov 92, <ByIF92.CLM@cs.psu.edu>
-
-
- I guess I must be a kook not to believe that the preceding and ensuing
- name-calling was a result of the extreme and offensive nature of
- these sentences.
-
- Don
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