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From: marie@harvard.ARPA (Marie desJardins)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Jenny of the Prairie
Message-ID: <207@harvard.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 17:33:48 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 11 17:33:48 1984
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> 
> Making friends with foxes and decorating your lovely cave with rosepetals
> and other sundry things is a wonderful idea.
> 
> Really....I mean it sounds great, and makes a wonderful game, and certainly
> will keep those horrid men in their place.

Nobody ever mentioned "horrid men".  Sunny made a generalization about
the attitudes of men and women which I have often found to be true.  Of
course, it's not an absolute boundary; there are lots of sensitive,
gentle men, and lots of vicious, bloodthirsty women (sorry, exaggerating
a little there -- this guy is REALLY bugging me!).

> Unfortuneately poor Jenny is now dead.  Since she didn't kill the fox, or
> the bunny, and made all sorts of friends with the other denizens of the
> Great Outdoors, at least she starved in the company of the Bambis!
> 
> You ever do any survival camping?? Without going into detail, I was once
> forced to do so.  Amazing how all those really cute critters look better
> with parsley and wild onion over an open fire when you haven't eaten in
> a few days.  Amazing how those horrid male instincts took over and keep me
> alive.

(Trying to keep my temper, but it's not easy.)  Yes, there may be
circumstances in which you HAVE to kill to survive.  In the game, there
are supposed to be enough wild fruits, vegetables, grains, and so forth
that Jenny can stay alive.  I'm sure if Jenny didn't have ANY food
except parsley and wild onion, she would kill a rabbit.  Or maybe not,
and then she would die.  The point is, you don't always HAVE to kill,
even in situations where is might seem necessary.  (And this point can
be extended to "you don't always have to hurt someone, even when it
might *seem* necessary" and "you don't have to be obnoxious and
sarcastic, even when it might seem like fun at the time.")

> Wait......How can this be????  A male programmed this game....but that
> MUST be impossible.....The original poster is probably right now
> changing her opinion of the game....anything that comes from a male
> (at least from what I've seen of her other postings!) must by
> definition be sexist and bad.....

BULLSHIT.  Nobody ever said all males were bad.  Some of them are.  So
are some women.  I don't think it can be denied that many men
discriminate against women.  But not all men do.  And to those who
don't, thank you!  If you're not a chauvinist, then nobody has insulted
you.  If you are, then you deserve what you get.

	Marie desJardins
	marie@harvard