Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 7/1/84; site wuphys.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!mgnetp!we53!busch!wucs!wuphys!fek From: fek@wuphys.UUCP (Frank Kramer) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Imagine a non-sexist society... Message-ID: <358@wuphys.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 14:04:59 EDT Article-I.D.: wuphys.358 Posted: Fri Aug 23 14:04:59 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 06:25:06 EDT References: <931@oddjob.UUCP> <235@whuts.UUCP> Reply-To: fek@wuphys.UUCP (Frank Kramer) Distribution: net Organization: Physics Dept., Washington Univ. in St. Louis Lines: 29 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 ihnp4!wuphys!fek