[1238] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Patriarchy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael E Rolish)
Fri Mar 15 01:34:07 2002
Message-ID: <200203150606.BAA1593568@m4-035-11.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:06:40 -0500
From: Michael E Rolish <merolish@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:36:00 EST."
<200203142136.QAA28454@gold.mit.edu>
>Which is *exactly* why some students felt we needed a
>smash-the-patriarchy bake sale and installation artwork that took
>that very revered shape last Friday in honor of International Women's
>day.
So while the Jungle Party posters constitute harassment, this doesn't?
>Does this omission have anything to do with... oh, I don't know....
>The Patriarchy, perhaps?
The Tech has really kept you and your buddies down, hasn't it?
Remember this?
But when it comes to immediacy and scale, the largest issue is the
impending death by starvation and treatable disease of roughly 7.5
million Afghanis as a direct and foreseeable result of U.S. air
strikes and the U.S. sealing of the border with Pakistan.
>Read Lydia Sargent's column called Hotel Satire - you will feel *much* better!
>http://zena.secureforum.com/Znet/zmag/zarticle.cfm?Url=articles/sargentmay98.htm
>http://zena.secureforum.com/Znet/zmag/zarticle.cfm?Url=/articles/dick99.htm
>http://zena.secureforum.com/Znet/zmag/zarticle.cfm?Url=articles/feb95sargent.htm
If that's the best you can dredge up, I do feel much better.
MER
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