Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihnet.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihnet!dkbrink From: dkbrink@ihnet.UUCP (d. k. brinkman) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Imagine a non-sexist society... Message-ID: <284@ihnet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 10:36:11 EDT Article-I.D.: ihnet.284 Posted: Thu Aug 22 10:36:11 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 17:55:46 EDT References: <931@oddjob.UUCP> <235@whuts.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 25 > > A couple months ago I posted an article asking people to suggest what > > sorts of qualities they imagined a non-sexist society to have. > > BORING!!!! > > Unless the gene-splicers come up with a way of making us > androgynous, the idea is flatly impossible. Equal rights for women > (and men) is not the same as trying to erase all differences between > the sexes. I think that many people are confused about this. I am > not. I support equal *rights* whole-heartedly. The idea of a > non-sexist society is absurd. The most interesting women I know are > those that are not trying to deny their femininity, yet refuse to > take any sh*t from men. > > Best regards, > Andy Cohill > {allegra|ihnp4}houxm!whuxl!whuts!amc The non-sexist society you imagine is non-sexual. Boring, I agree. Webster defines sexism as prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially discrimination against women. The non-sexist society I imagine is sexual, but without prejudice. Diane Brinkman