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From: tims@mako.UUCP (Tim Stoehr)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: person without person
Message-ID: <165@mako.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 13:21:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 11 13:21:42 1984
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 > Anecdote #1.  Yesterday I watched the movie The Long, Long Trailer with
 > Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.  Lucy and Desi drive a trailer through the US
 > on their honeymoon.  A friend and I were amazed at some of the dialogue,
 > Lucy made several comments about marrying to "take care of" Desi, etc.
 > This was the *classic* "a woman without a man is like nothing" theme.

This is a classic example all right; a classic example of a woman
distorting and twisting something in order to fit it into her ideology,
despite any reality or logic getting in the way.  If you look at the
above quote, you'll see that a woman claimed to have married a man to
take care of him, that is, HE needed HER.  The only way this could be
construed to mean that women need men is to somehow infer that the woman
in this case needed to take care of a man.  But even so, the real
message is that men need to be taken care of by women, and not that
women need men.