Theos-Talk Archives (October 1996 Message tl00355)

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> > From: John Straughn <JTarn@envirolink.org>
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> > Gotta throw the other sex in ...let's keep the girls happy.  But
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> > isn't this sexism thing getting a little out of hand?
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> But isn't that the point?  The "girls" aren't happy.
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> >Most of the posts I see
> > on here are related to discrimination of one thing or another.  The fact
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> > we are all equals.
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> I'll applaud that, but there's a whole bunch of people (notice, I did not
> say "guys") out there who don't, for different reasons.  No one likes to
> feel like a second-class person simply because of their sex, race, color,
> religion or you-name-it.
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> How would you like to be pawed and felt up by your male clergy and
> co-workers?  Then be afraid to be say anything about it because your were
> only one of the "girls" and lower in rank to the pawee?  I didn't read this
> in the newspaper - I've lived it for thirty years.
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> Some of us "girls" have decided that we don't speak up for ourselves and
> consider ourselves equals and demand that attitude of others, then we will
> never be treated with respect.  If we sound a little shrill, it's because
> we're tired of being some guy's cheap thrill.
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> -Ann E. Bermingham
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Girls?  How about trying the terms ladies or women? Or, would you
rather that we call you "boy"?
Gertrude, the Militant, Churchmouse
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