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- From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: Did someone ask about misogynist pro-life loons?
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.155728.28045@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:57:28 GMT
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- In <1992Sep14.030925.385@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- > In article <lacgvmINN56h@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> emarsh@hernes-sun.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric
- > >In article <nyikos.715468090@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu
- > >>In <1992Sep1.134433.12701@pwcs.stpaul.gov> chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) w
- > >
- > >>> "It is about a movement that encourages women to leave their
- > >>> husbands, kill their children, destroy capitalism, practice
- > >>> witchcraft and become lesbians." [quoted from memory]
- > >
- > >>Hmmm. Maybe I gave Robertson more credit than he deserves. On the other
- > >>hand, the quote does not say which "movement" he is referring to. From
- > >>the wording, I would guess that he is talking about a book, and what it
- > >>is about, and my one remaining question (unless the answer raises new ones)
- > >>is whether this movement is the whole feminist movement, or some subset
- > >>of it, like Wicca.
- > >
- > >As a third degree Wiccan priest who leads a coven of my own I rebuke
- > >your statement that Wicca is a subset of the feminist movement.
- >
- > Eric, Eric, Eric, those who do not learn from their mistakes are bound to
- > repeat them...
-
- Are you going to repeat an earlier mistake? :-)
-
- > We have essentially the same situation here. Mr. Nyikos said, in effect
- >
- > Maybe Robertson was referring to the Wicca subset of Feminism
- >
- > .. You read that as implying that ALL Wiccans are Feminists. Universal
- > quantification, in other words. I, on the other hand, read it as implying
- > only that a "Wicca subset of Feminism" exists, i.e. at least one Wiccan is a
- > Feminist. Existential quantification, in other words.
-
- Except that Nyikos did *not* say "some subset of it, like the Wiccan one",
- which would equate with what you wrote. He clearly claimed that Wicca is
- a subset of feminism.
-
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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