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From: zben@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Fishing for Bicycles
Message-ID: <7374@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Jun-84 11:31:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  6 11:31:00 1984
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The statement "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" is
probably a "good thing" when used to support the idea that women are people
too, and just as subject to hubris and all the rest of it.  I am disturbed
by part of its underlying philosophy...

I am speaking to those of roughly my generation (10/11/52 - early "boom").
You know, YUMPies (Young Upwardly-Mobile Professionals).  This term quite
probably applies to most of us here.  We are constantly accused by the
media as being the "me" generation.  To the extent the statement above
implies that one human being does not "need" another, it has the definite
danger of being divisive.  (Actually that's sort of circular, isn't it?)
This *is* still spaceship Earth, and we do still need each other.

Then again, if you had been kept barefoot and pregnant for >6000 years,
you might want to go out and paint the town red, just once, before
accepting your responsibility as a member of society.

-- 
Ben Cranston   ...seismo!umcp-cs!zben      zben@umd2.ARPA