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Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics
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> 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
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