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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Newsgroups: soc.men
- Subject: Blatant Sexism (Re: adoption rules)
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:49:12 GMT
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- peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >bweiss@cs.arizona.edu (Beth Weiss) writes:
- >
- >>Scenario: Woman has baby she knows she can't support, and wishes to
- >>give up for adoption. She claims she doesn't know who the father
- >>is.
- >>Now what?
-
- >>Options:
- >>2) Force her to list all possible fathers and contact them all to
- >>see what they want to do.
-
-
- >But what if she truly doesn't know -- and can't even guess? What
- >if she was raped and doesn't know who raped her? What if she only
- >knows his firstname (and it's something common like "john")?
- >
- >Also, what if she gives a *long* list? Who is responsible for
- >diggin up all these men and contacting them? Who pays for it?
-
-
- "Don, are you in the habit of having sex with women when you know no more
- about them than their first name? Do you usually know no more than the
- continent and the year when you engage in intercourse? This surprizes me.
-
- I think that *most* men know considerably more than that. I also think
- that you are wasting alot of time and energy on a point that is not
- particularly important: as I understand it your hypothesis is that it
- is difficcult for a man to avoid being surprized by a paternity suit.
- I claim that it is very easy for him to avoid such a surprize by being
- responsible in his sexual behavior. You seem to believe that such
- responsibility is a hardship on men -- a most uncharitable view of
- your gender, IMO."
-
- -- Michal Leah Peri, 15 Jan 93, <1j7bp5INN8b7@gap.caltech.edu>
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-
- Don
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