Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site unmvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!unmvax!cliff From: cliff@unmvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: re: frequenting the wrong peoples wives Message-ID: <582@unmvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 23:12:12 EST Article-I.D.: unmvax.582 Posted: Thu Jan 17 23:12:12 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 02:35:38 EST References: <495@hou5g.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 36 > <> > > 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 is a perfect example of the societal norm of assuming that people are heterosexual. > 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. Women were never mentioned in the portion of the article you reprinted. > You've got a long way to go yet, baby, to reach true equality. Here is a perfect example of the societal norm of assuming that infants are reading the net :-) > Julia Harper > [ihnp4,ariel]!hou5g!jdh The article was pointing out that in Albuquerque it is not uncommon for deaths to be related to jealousy (explicitly husband were mentioned but there are also quite a few boyfriends involved). You might not like it but that is what happens around here. Taking someone to task for presenting the information as it is does not help further equality. It might do more to point out that with respect to violent crimes women are statistically superior (assuming lack of commision of v.c. is good) to men. --Cliff