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From: fek@wuphys.UUCP (Frank Kramer)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Imagine a non-sexist society...
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Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 14:04:59 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 14:04:59 1985
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This is in response to the person who thinks that a non-sexist society
is absdurd due to the fact that men and women are different.  This
person implies that in a non-sexist society, each androgenous entity
would be completely equal to all others in every regard.

PLEASE !!!!!!

Don not make the same assumptions about equal rights that the
Shafleys (sp?) of the world make.  The whole idea of equal rights is
that each person be considered equal *under the law*.  It does not
mean that we will become a unisex society.  It does not mean that
women will have to learn how to use urinals.  It does not mean that a
man will have to become a house-husband.  It means what its says; all
people must be treated equally with respect to the law. 

I am a sexist if I think that one sex should receive preferential
treatment simply because one is a member of that sex.

I am not necessarily a sexist if I think that the woman sitting next
to me in the office would be good to have  sex with.  But I am a jerk and an
asshole if I harrass her to obtain it.


That's all,

Frank
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