Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site oddjob.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: skirt-wearing Message-ID: <1025@oddjob.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 19:41:53 EST Article-I.D.: oddjob.1025 Posted: Thu Oct 31 19:41:53 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 03:38:54 EST References: <248@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1944@reed.UUCP> <32@ubc-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 28 Perhaps the two people quoted below really don't disagree, but are just talking about the same thing from different angles. I think that if neither sex is disadvantaged economically, politically or socially, then we (society) will have done the best we can. How a member of either sex feels about doing something or wearing something will then be an internal matter for that person to resolve. At the moment, women are clearly still disadvantaged politically and economically. In my opinion, both men and women are disadvantaged socially because of the unequal treatment given them on the basis of their gender. References: >> I would say that economic, political and social issues are more important >> topics than people's feelings, and whether a skirt connotes femininity >> or how it makes you "feel". >> >> Cheryl Stewart > >I couldn't disagree more. Not only are feelings extremely important, they >are intimately involved with all of the intellectual issues you listed above. >At the root of every belief you have on every topic are your feelings about >the topic. > Jeff Lichtman _____________________________________________________ Matt University crawford@anl-mcs.arpa Crawford of Chicago ihnp4!oddjob!matt