Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/23/84; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: re: frequenting the wrong peoples wives Message-ID: <64@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 02:46:09 EST Article-I.D.: ucbcad.64 Posted: Thu Jan 17 02:46:09 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 00:43:11 EST References: <495@hou5g.UUCP> Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group, Berkeley, CA Lines: 23 > > Now certainly there is a lot of petty crime there, and > >a lot of burglery too, but mugging was unheard of, and in order > >to get shot or stabbed you had to frequent the wrong bars or > >the wrong people's wives. > > Here is a perfect example of the societal norm of assuming that > people are men. > > Here, too, is a perfect example of the societal norm of identifying > women only through their role as connected with someone else, > instead of as people in their own right. > > You've got a long way to go yet, baby, to reach true equality. No, you've got it all wrong! The author of the above article obviously understands that people can also be women, but in the case of a woman frequenting the wrong woman's husband, he realizes that, being a woman and thus less prone to violent displays of macho, the victimized spouse would be much less likely to fly into a rage and kill her husband's lover. You are certainly right that men have a long way to go to reach equality, but it's obvious that the above poster recognises this fact. Wayne