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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
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Posted: Thu Jan 17 23:12:12 1985
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Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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> <>
> >	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