Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!zben 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 Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.7374 Posted: Wed Jun 6 11:31:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jun-84 19:06:09 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 19 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