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From: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison )
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Emotions and choice
Message-ID: <5576@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 17:01:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 17:01:40 1985
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In article <1393@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes:
>What about "choosing" to STAY in the situation?  Have you any idea how
>many women "choose" to do just that, because 1) they've been indoctrinated
>(by church and family and country music records) that it's the morally
>correct thing to "stand by your man" and 2) they cannot envision any other
>possible choice because of the success of this indoctrination.  Is it a
>choice when you know NO OTHER WAY?????

There is ALWAYS a choice.  To say that a woman in our society "knows no
other way" seems a little short-sighted.  It may not seem like a
viable alternative; it may not be an easy alternative, but it is an alternative.

Moira Mallison
tektronix!moiram