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- From: dbt@cellar.org (Marquis de Freud)
- Newsgroups: alt.personals
- Subject: No Reasonable Gurls?
- Message-ID: <ZFkyTB1w164w@cellar.org>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 06:12:46 GMT
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- To add my own 250 millibucks, I agree that there is a gender-ratio imbalance
- in most universities. Engineering and CompSci tend to be over-maled, and art
- and Sociology tend to be over-femaled.
-
- This doesn't mean that these are exclusive realms of existance!
-
- I have on ongoing "fight" with my libertarian friends. Most -- nay, ALL -- of
- them are males. The few female lib'ns I have ever met are "attached", and
- that is the general impression of many other male lib'ns.
-
- On the OTHER hand, I have noticed that many of my unmarried, unattached
- libertarian male friends are so vociferously "anti-PC" and otherwise hostile
- toward women, that it is no wonder women stay away from libertarian politics
- and social activities. Who wants to hang around with a bunch of guys who
- compalain about women all the time? Even if some of the complaints are true,
- they certainly *aren't* true for *every* woman; not even *most*, I suspect.
-
- I often make the suggestion that the lib'ns try to recruit more women rather
- than bemoan the lack of them, and to stop bashing "feminism" and work to
- introduce libertarian ideas into the feminist movement. Not only would it
- have the immediate effect of providing a more balanced gender (and probably,
- *dating*) ratio, but it could also perhaps double the number of anti-state
- activists and widen the scope of their criticism.
-
- The last time I checked, Gloria Steinem had nothing to do with the low
- frequnecy of my sexual contacts. And the last time I *did* have a "sexual
- contact", it was in the absence of my complaining.
-
- Sure -- I'd be thrilled to have a girlfriend with Big (Cerebral) Hemispheres,
- wit, similar ideas, and a hearty sexual appetite. And if you are a
- heterosexual male -- wouldn't YOU?
-
- Remember, that many of those "missing women" are either UNAWARE of USENET, or
- are just unwilling to hang out in an electronic agora populated with whiners
- and misogynists. This is the #1 complaintI hear from women who DO have a
- modem and know how to use it. I suspect that a few hours invested in showing
- some of those women in Art and Soc and other "womanly" areas of academe, how
- to use a computer and terminal software will be paid off in a better
- cyberspace, and maybe a little bit of biological I/O.
-
- MdF. But you can call me "Dave".
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