Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/12/84; site mit-hermes.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!mit-hermes!jpexg From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick) Newsgroups: net.women,net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Misogyny (Morley Safer on Burning Brides) Message-ID: <2230@mit-hermes.ARPA> Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 17:55:38 EST Article-I.D.: mit-herm.2230 Posted: Tue Nov 13 17:55:38 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Nov-84 05:46:15 EST References: <1851@nsc.UUCP> <1791@sun.uucp> Distribution: net Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 16 > the eastern/feminine values in favor of the western/masculine values, > then we can count on the end of civilization as we know it, because the Are you saying that burning Indian women to death constitutes "eastern/ feminine" values? If not, what does? Chinese foot-binding? Japanese geishas? Female infanticide, as in both China and India? At least western/masculine culture incorporates the idea (not always realized) of equal rights and justice. And the idea that social change is both necessary and possible! > Richard's example) I don't recall hearing of them burning Warlocks in Salem, > only Witches. Why is it that (some) men have this fear of women? Nobody was burned in Salem--the victims were hanged. At least one man was killed too, by being crushed to death as a form of torture because he refused to enter a plea (of guilty or not guilty) at his trial. Ponder, though, the fact that all of the victims' accusers were women.....