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- From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
- Subject: Re: Out of the Mouths of Babes
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:09:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.004200.28459@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >From article <SCOTTS.92Sep5142954@MORPHEUS.CIMDS.RI.CMU.EDU>, by scotts@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Safier):
- >> Suzie, we've been through this before. Gay men do not hate women. We
- >> are just not sexually attracted to them. Get it?
- >Since so many gays are pro-abortion, and since abortion is so harmful to respect
- >for women and for mothers, (not to mention also physically harmful to them), a case
- >can be made that generally as a group, they do hate women. There is only the
- >occasional exception.
- Unbelievable. Let's examine the logic here:
- 1) So many gays are pro-abortion. (Unsubstantiated premise).
- 2) Abortion is harmful to respect for women and for mothers. (Unsubstantiated
- premise.)
- 3) Abortion is physically harmful to women. (Unsubstantiated premise)
- 4) Therefore gays as a group hate women.(non sequiter)
-
- If this logic were true, we would be forced to conclude that anyone who
- is pro-abortion hates women. I'm not sure who SF considers to be pro-abortion.
- Conservatively, we would conclude that Gordon Storga hates women.
-
- However, I find it improbable that most gays are pro-abortion in
- the sense that Gordon Storga is. Therefore, let us be charitable and
- assume that Ms. Forgach means what we normally refer to as pro-choice.
- Therefore we come up with the funny conclusion that Adrienne Regard,
- Susan Garvin, rocker, and Kathi Mills hate women. (Must be because
- they're straight and won't have sex with them.) In fact, a very
- large number of women in this country seem to hate women by
- Ms. Forgach's definition.
-
- Questionable logic indeed, Ms. Forgach.
- -Ekr
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