Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Emotions and choice Message-ID: <1453@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 10:44:21 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1453 Posted: Fri Aug 9 10:44:21 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 06:15:56 EDT References: <1308@pyuxd.UUCP> <375@oliven.UUCP> <1345@pyuxd.UUCP> <291@tove.UUCP> <1393@pyuxd.UUCP> <5576@tektronix.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 22 >>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 ] I didn't say "a woman in our society" (which sounds like I meant generically women in general, which I did not). I was specifically referring to women who fit the example I described above. Just asserting "there is ALWAYS a choice" sounds very pompous and empty to me, sorry. Can you describe how such a woman could make a different and hopefully better choice without some change in her life that alters her mindset and shows her these other alternatives? -- "Meanwhile, I was still thinking..." Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr