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- From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
- Subject: Re: Plato's Views on Women
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:21:09 GMT
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- In article <40376@unix.SRI.COM>, maslak@unix.SRI.COM (Valerie Maslak) writes:
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- |> Speaking of Plato, I was at Georgetown University when Bill Clinton
- |> was there, and I had the interesting experience there of having an
- |> instructor, a Christian Brother, exclude me, as the only woman in
- |> the philosophy class, from two lectures that discussed Plato.
- |> Presumably because he was uncomfortable discussing Plato in front of
- |> me. I could have complained to the dean, but this was pre-feminist-
- |> consciousness, so I didn't complain, I just let this be part of what
- |> convinced me to quit school.
- |>
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- You mean that you *allowed* yourself to be shut out, and this is
- somehow the fault of someone or something *else*? You *could*
- have done something (and almost certainly it would have been
- effective), but you *chose* not to? We've all done things like
- this that we regret in retrospect. But most of us (even women
- in my experience) are reluctant to blame society or culture for
- such an error.
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