Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!ut-sally!sakthi From: sakthi@ut-sally.UUCP (Sakthi Subramanian) Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics Subject: Re: Income Disparities Based On Sex Message-ID: <2296@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 13:24:06 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2296 Posted: Mon Jul 8 13:24:06 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 06:55:41 EDT References: <327@kontron.UUCP> <837@oddjob.UUCP> Reply-To: sakthi@ut-sally.UUCP (Sakthi Subramanian) Distribution: net Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.women:6310 net.politics:9833 Summary: In article <837@oddjob.UUCP> cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) writes: >that they have to do the most of. So your little triumph in finding a >little newspaper article that finds "scientific proof that most women >are unfit to do complex analytical and spatial tasks (i.e tasks that pay >lots of money)" is just a bunch of hogwash, and very closely akin to >the "science" of eugenics that Hitler used to justify his little experiments. > >Far be it from me to call you a NAZI, Mr. Cramer. > > Cheryl Stewart I am referring to the words "little triumph" right on the first line. It is one thing to fight for women's rights but entirely quite another to pick on everything done by men and analyze them for sexist content. Mr. Cramer in this case was probably merely trying to point out another aspect of the problem, so he presented an article that he had seen. To conclude that he considered that a "little triumph" is to allow feminism to upset one's sense of judgement. sakthi