Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pyuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxc!chris From: chris@pyuxc.UUCP (R. Hollenbeck) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: women's place Message-ID: <625@pyuxc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 15:01:39 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxc.625 Posted: Wed Mar 6 15:01:39 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 02:44:50 EST References: <617@wlcrjs.UUCP>, <868@topaz.ARPA> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 28 > The thought here which bothers me is How many of us out there > in the world feel that our prime function in this world is to have babies. > jeanette l. zobjeck All opinions expressed Absolutely not. On the other hand, it is the primary reason for the human race having both women and men. > Since there are also many women who, for one reason or another, can not > have children. Does that fact also make them useless, non-contributing > hangers on in society or does the fact that they were born with a > females body make them exempt from that concept. Is it only wrong to > BECOME (physically) a woman who can not have children because your > body once had the wrong parts on it. No, don't let anyone tell you you have to have babies, or, for that matter, that you have to do anything. Most such rules come from people trying to justify their own decisions by asking you to replicate them. >Contrary to popular opinion, after a certain age, hacking does not fulfill >all. >liz sommers As a non-hacker, I'm really glad to hear this.