Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5g!jdh From: jdh@hou5g.UUCP (Julia Harper) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: re: frequenting the wrong peoples wives Message-ID: <495@hou5g.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 13:02:49 EST Article-I.D.: hou5g.495 Posted: Tue Jan 15 13:02:49 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 21:25:36 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 21 <> > 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. -- Julia Harper [ihnp4,ariel]!hou5g!jdh