seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy) (02/20/86)
In article <1951@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes: >> BUT there are many >> NON-blind, NON-stupid people who KNOWINGLY AND PURPOSEFULLY >> *USE* these commonly held assumptions *against* bright, >> competitive young women because bright, competitive >> young wome threaten male dominance in general > > This is a crock. Yes, I'll call you paranoid, but it does not "serve" me >to do so. What this really is is sexism and stereotyping, exactly the >same thing I hear you complaining so bitterly against when practiced by men. >Listen to yourself. You are putting all men into a class based on their gender. >If that isn't sexism, I don't know what is. If you want to create a non-sexist >world (a goal I am 100% for, because believe it or not society also has >expectations about what a MAN should or shouldn't do, some of which I find >as objectionable as you apparently do those about women) you could start >by not practicing it yourself. From a different posting by Greg: > This I am not so sure about. She is so RIGHTEOUS. Her roommate is >automatically "wrong" because she does things that Becky thinks are >inappropriate. And so they are, for BECKY. I find this attitude typical >of people who are openly religious Is this the same person? Sexist stereotypes are wrong, but religious stereotypes are okay? Make up your mind, Greg. Snoopy tektronix!tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy