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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Sat Mar 12 05:20:44 1994
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 05:19:22 -0500
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admos (Alexander D Moskovitz):
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eytan (Eytan Adar):
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harris (Jonathan G Harris):
Oswald acted alone.
UFO's are not alien spacecraft.
The Edenton 7 are innocent. Stop the witchhunt and free Bob Kelly, Besty Kelly, and Dawn Wilson.
email: harris@mit.edu
Office hours: 10.40/thermodynamics 2-4 pm Wednesdays
secretary: Gabrielle Joseph, x8-7026
mit directory info: finger j-harris5@mit.edu
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Comfort Inn Motel Downton (619)232-2525
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jyung (Jeremy Hoyt Yung):
To find the nugget on my critical path
Jeremy Yung
Research Assistant
Space Engineering Research Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
Los Angeles Times, Wed March 2 1994, page B7 (editorial page)
Feminism Sells Women Short
Rather than being prepared to deal effectively with life, women are
being taught to whine and sue.
by Judith Sherven
Feminist Marianne Walters desires a "world where one might never need
to fear harassment." Rather than a worldly, professional woman, she
sounds like a small, innocent child dreaming of perfection to keep
away the night demons.
Sexual harassment cannot ever be eradicated because much of it exists
through the interpretive eye of the beholder. Confusion and
miscommunication between men and women is a reality to be learned
about and negotiated rather than wished away.
Current radical feminist rhetoric like Walters' undermines the goal
of equal rights and responsibilities for women in favor of the
romantic and narcissistic ideal of a perfect, stress-free world- for
women. In this disempowering fantasy, women do not have to grow up
or become responsible for themselves. That leaves men the only
responsible people on the planet. Instead of insisting that women
achieve their potential, the makers of these child's-world fantasies
encourage women to blame men and and society for all their
difficulties. They teach women to look to Big Daddy Government and
Great Mama National Organization for Women to solve all their
problems. Any woman who aspires to personal power or success should
be outraged at this fragile-pansy propaganda. Yet there are few
voices willing to risk the righteous judgement of the feminist elite.
Think of it: Feminist leaders, purportedly women of thought and
consequence, treating themselves and their fellow women like
overgrown baby dolls who can neither think for themselves nor prevail
against all-powerful men. For example, current politically correct
dogma insists that if two adults get drunk and have consensual sex,
only the man should be held accountable for the consequences.
As a woman and a clinical psychologist for 15 years, I am deeply
afraid for my sex. Women's leaders today are teaching victimhood as
the primary identity for all women and powerlessness as strength. I
have heard feminist attorney and radio talk-show personality Gloria
Allred stretch the bounds of credibility by repeatedly asserting that
"women do not lie." She has no difficulty, however, pronouncing men
as liars, potential rapists and women-haters.
More hysteria is evident when a college professor feels "sexually
abused" by having a Goya nude hanging in her classroom, and another
woman sues for sexual harassment because a male colleague brings her
roses. Women are undone by admiring looks and feel enraged and
abused by complimentary whistles on the street. One would think that
women never told dirty jokes. Are women nothing more than retrograde
Victorians?
The denial of women's flaws and faults is pathological. It keeps
women ignorant of their complicity in their own victimization. It
provides no preparation for living in the real world in which bad
things happen. Discomfort, obstacles, and misfortune cannot be
avoided, no matter how innocent women pretend to be. The fact is
that life is an unfolding mystery and it happens to all of us.
The tragedy is that today's women, rather than being prepared to cope
more effectively and pwerfully with life's adversities, are being
told to whine and sue because they have experienced some of life's
troubles. I am not talking about rape or any other crime that was on
the books prior to political-correctness thought control. I am
talking about the expectation that a woman should be able to "never
fear sexual harassment." That is absurd, just as moronic as it would
be for men to imagine that they could never feel manipulated by a
woman.
Clearly, women's movement leaders fail to understand that in their
demand for innocence they place the responsibility for women's
comfort and safety solely in the hands of men. As a result, women
are being educated to see themselves as ever more dependent and
helpless.
It is frightening to see females portraited as unable to cope in the
real world of men and women, penises and vaginas, desire and
attraction. We fought so hard to be sexually and socially liberated.
Is this squeamishness what feminism has wrought?
[Judith Sherven is a clinical psychologist in West Los Angeles who is
writing a book on women and victimization.]
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