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Subject: Re: Fidelity (more hairy beasts)
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Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 11:25:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 21 11:25:27 1984
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Karen & Sunny Kirsten write:
> I've been battling mine, for 34 years.  He cost me a wife, a lover,
> and nearly my current mate.  He's made me many enemies, as so
> many of us do.  He's the hairy beast in man.  EVERY man has one.
> My wife of a week, almost left me, rather than face him again.
> 
> Nuclear power is like a man.  Tame it and it will warm you,
> Let it loose and it will destroy ALL.
> 
>  But he lives in
> EACH and EVERY man alive.  He who seeks to dominate is the hairy beast.

So, the hairy beast is the desire to dominate, and it lives in EACH and
EVERY man.  And if you let a man loose, it will destroy ALL.

I guess there's no point in hoping you meant *some* men since you capitalized
EACH and EVERY.  I guess there's also no point in assuring you that you're
wrong, but I will anyway:  No, ALL men don't desire to dominate.  Men are
not really that much different from women in some ways.  If you prick us,
do we not bleed?

It seems as though you see men as inherantly evil creatures, some of which,
with a lot of luck and the right training, can stifle their basically evil
natures and become civilized beings.  Please stop hating us all for the actions
of some of us.

I'm sorry, Sunny, if some men rape, and some men beat their wives, and some
men do all kinds of nasty terrible things.  But those of us who don't do
those things don't like being told that we're basically the same as those
who do.

Offended.
Jeff Sonntag
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