Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks) Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics Subject: Re: Income Disparities Based On Sex Message-ID: <797@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 02:45:50 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.797 Posted: Wed Jul 10 02:45:50 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 08:24:13 EDT References: <327@kontron.UUCP> <837@oddjob.UUCP>, <2296@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: U Chicago -- Linguistics Dept Lines: 37 Xref: watmath net.women:6323 net.politics:9843 From: sakthi@ut-sally.UUCP (Sakthi Subramanian) Message-ID: <2296@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 12:24:06 CDT > 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 > > May I suggest that S.S. may be overlooking the history behind this exchange? That is, Cramer has been quite prolific in this newsgroup, and Stewart's view of his item was presumably based not on that one posting alone but also on a familiarity with the stands Cramer has been taking all along. It's fair to use this background as the basis for reading between the lines and making a supposition about his underlying point in posting that clipping. -- -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar