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From: ariels@orca.UUCP (Ariel Shattan)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 13:28:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 13:28:24 1985
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> In article <405@h-sc1.UUCP> desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) writes:
> >Mobility matters because your husband (working,
> >naturally, in a high-paying job) may have to relocate and you need
> >to follow him.  So why shouldn't the man follow his wife?  Well,
> >because he has a higher-paying job, naturally.
> 
> Does this mean you're willing to marry a man who makes less money than you?
> That you're willing to "marry below your class"? I would suspect many women
> are not. I'd be happy to hear if I'm wrong.
> -- 
> 
>  Phil Ngai +1 408 749 5720
>  UUCP: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra}!amdcad!phil
>  ARPA: amdcad!phil@decwrl.ARPA

I'll (hopefully, someday) marry whom I choose, be he foundry worker,
welder, artisan, hacker, manager, cabbie, or janitor.  There are too
few men who have the attributes that I consider necessary for
permanent liason for me to narrow the field even more with silly
monetary or class requirements.  

A man doesn't have to make a lot of money to be loving, intelligent,
supportive, funny, self-sufficient, and creative.  In fact, if a man's
swallowed the "success, money and prestige" line, he's probably so
caught up in "men should be" and "women should be" that he'd stifle us
both very quickly.

Ariel (Give me some men who are stout-hearteded men) Shattan
..!tektronix!orca!ariels