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- From: 891666t@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trish Turliuk)
- Subject: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.192851.10053@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Organization: Acadia University
- References: <1992Nov6.030057.28538@dragon.acadiau.ca> <1992Nov6.231200.21032@ils.nwu.edu> <1992Nov7.172739.14097@dragon.acadiau.ca> <1992Nov8.004603.27774@ils.nwu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 19:28:51 GMT
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- lynch@ils.nwu.edu (Richard Lynch) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov7.172739.14097@dragon.acadiau.ca> 891666t@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trish Turliuk) writes:
- >>lynch@ils.nwu.edu (Richard Lynch) writes:
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- >>>In article <1992Nov6.030057.28538@dragon.acadiau.ca> 891666t@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trish Turliuk) writes:
- >>
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- >>I *do* consider this a sexist issue and if the flip side of this coin bothers
- >>you, welcome yourself into reverse-sexism.
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- >Guess I was too abrupt.
- >Since the problem (if there is one) exists for both men and women; it is not
- >strictly a sexist issue, it's more of a humanist issue was what I should have
- >said. Then, again, I think of reverse-sexism as a nonsense word. sexism is
- >sexism regardless of who's getting hurt. And, if it's going both ways, it's
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- >not sexism at all...or at least it's a very wierd form of sexism.
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- I do believe it's sexism. Oxford: "prejudice or discrimination against
- people (esp. women) because of their sex". My saying "reverse" is in
- compliance with the "esp. women". I agree that it's a goofy phrase, but I
- don't think "humanist" cuts it either. How about plain ol' "sexual
- discrimination" ? (AH, language..AH, communication)
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- >PS: The thought that you put at the bottom is nice, but the PC crowd will soon
- >point out that even if you don't think *all* women are saints and *all* men
- >evil, how come you expressed it that way? Are you trying to imply that women
- >are better than men, but there are some exceptions?
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- I'm trying to avoid the feminist Essentialist viewpoint. I find that
- the generalizations that I opposed are often prevalent feelings among
- feminists (JMHO) and I disagree so I merely negated it.
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- Trish
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