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From: jdh@hou5g.UUCP (Julia Harper)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: re: frequenting the wrong peoples wives
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 13:02:49 EST
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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, 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
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