Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!lanl!crs From: crs@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics,net.social Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics Message-ID: <27889@lanl.ARPA> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 11:16:45 EDT Article-I.D.: lanl.27889 Posted: Wed Jul 3 11:16:45 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 05:47:18 EDT References: <482@ttidcc.UUCP> <8203@ucbvax.ARPA><457@unc.UUCP> <2566@randvax.UUCP> <11357@brl-tgr.ARPA> <832@oddjob.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 36 Xref: watmath net.women:6254 net.politics:9759 net.social:790 > and that your sickeningly patronizing attitude towards her unemployment and > hobbies has only served to trivialize her vast untapped potential for > continued service to her profession. Come on, Cheryl, I read the original article and, barring falsehood, it sounds more descriptive than patronizing. He did, after all, say that she *chose* to quit her job. I know, you are going to tell me that the reason that she chose to quit her job is that all of her vicious and misguided relatives hassled her till she couldn't stand it any more. That could conceivably be true. BUT, you can't possibly know that unless you personally know the people involved and, perhaps, not even then. Your apparent pretensions to omniscience are annoying and alienating, to say the least. > "Women's culture" is as much of a trap as "ghetto culture". > Continuing to argue that *their* women don't *want* to get out of the ghetto > (because it's oh-such-a-gilded ghetto), the male chauvinist swine on this net > You seem to have the idea that you *know* everyone else's motives. That you *know* what every other woman in the world wants and that it is the same as what you want from life. Granted, this is a little out of context but I don't think it distorts the impression given by your flame. Maybe you just had a bad day... and, maybe not... > Cheryl Stewart As may be expected, the opinions are mine alone. -- Charlie Sorsby ...!{cmcl2,ihnp4,...}!lanl!crs crs@lanl.arpa