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- From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
- Subject: Re: What feminists believe (was: Re: Male Men Bashers)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.041428.20956@microsoft.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 04:14:28 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <93020.1332133399390@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <1993Jan22.093251.30@microsoft.com> <1993Jan23.201809.730@hellgate.utah.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan23.201809.730@hellgate.utah.edu> galt%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Greg Alt) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan22.093251.30@microsoft.com> jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:
- >>>12. Women should be drafted as well, where a draft exists.
- >>
- >>YES.
- >
- >Why is this a feminist issue? Currently, men's rights are denied by the
- >draft, so you would like women to have the same rights taken away? That
- >is ridiculous. To call that a feminist view is even more ridiculous.
-
- I have serious reservations about drafts in general, and am glad that
- no draft currently exists in my country [USA - registration <> draft].
-
- However, to have men be drafted and not women reinforces the &*)% gender
- roles about how men are to sacrifice themselves for the sake of women
- & children and that women are helpless little darlings that can barely
- wipe their own behinds, much LESS do anything useful or productive.
-
- To summarize: I prefer no draft [and no registration]. However, if there
- is a draft, it should be of both genders.
-
- Yes, I've written my rep & senators on this issue.
-
- -jen
-