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- Date: Monday, 25 Jan 1993 03:43:14 EST
- From: <RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
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- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Male Men Bashers
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- -From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine)
- -
- -<RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
- -
- -> However, I disagree with the sarcasm because it is true that there are many
- ->many ways in which men are treated unjustly in this society. Anita Hill's
- ->concern with talk of pubic hair receives more attention than hundreds of
- ->thousands of men who are raped in US prisons every day.
- -
- -Should either issue *not* receive attention?
-
- They should, but let us ask. Which issue is more serious? I.e. is it
- more of a violation to hear about pubic hair in a coke can or to be raped
- day in and day out?
-
- And which issue HAS recieved more attention from American society?
-
- We all say that we are opposed BOTH to discrimnation against men AND women
- but how dow we ACT? Suppose someone says `I equally respect the need for
- white and black children to eat'. But when dealing with 50 hungry children,
- 25 white and 25 black, we discover that he has fed 20 of the white children
- and only two of the black children. Would we not call him a racist regard-
- less of what he SAYS?
-
- There is sexism against both men and women in American society, but
- there is a great deal of action and enthusiasm, especially at the official
- level, towards eliminating sexism against women. There is very LITTLE
- action and enthusiasm in official-dom towards eliminating sexism against
- men.
-
- This is a reality. There is a symbiosis between male politicians and
- female voters on this issue. Until men themselves become aware of this,
- and they have help from the more reasonable women like you, things are
- not going to change.
-
- Rohit Parikh
-