steven@qubix.UUCP (Steven Maurer) (09/10/83)
In a recent follow up to my original article, Jim Balter decided to bring up some issues that I am quite concerned with. Despite many personal attacks, following in the grand style of net.flame, I believe his response deserves discussion. So without further ado... > I doubt that you actually believe that anyone's motive was to destroy or > or in any other way maim the English language for the sole purpose of > doing so, ..... > ... Such "needs" are reflections of very old social placements, > which are undergoing attack. Denying the reality of large social movements, > attacking the massive number of people who consider themselves feminists as a > group, as though they were a handful of crackpots, is asinine. No, I do not believe that anyone is attacking the English language for the sole purpose of doing so. I never said so. What I was trying to get across was this: Much of the Feminist Movement, in its effort to attack *unfair* "very old socal placements", are attacking things which are either not unfair, performed equally by both males and females, or have little to do with male-female relations. As an example, I used the argument over the use of boy/girl vs man/woman in the English language. Easily instead I could have used arguments over Toilet Seats, Leg Shaving, Pretty girls advertising products (vs pretty boys), Person-holes, Male assholishness in romance (vs Female bitchiness in romance), etc. None of any of the above are taken seriously by anyone except radical feminists (the self-same handful of crackpots), who continue to degrade the movement by such petty griping. It is a shame that the party-line of feminism is now controlled by these very same people, as it has given such a infamy to the movement that anything associated with it is almost immediately rejected my main-stream America (though copious lip-service in inevitably rendered). The most notorious of several examples of the debunked-because-of-feminist-association is the ERA. It is for this reason, I do not call myself a "Feminist". Even though my beliefs are probably quite similar to yours, I like to be listened to when I talk. I also do not like to be classified with the same women who denounce males as the "leaders of the bourgeois fasciest military- industrial complex" (I actually heard that at a rally). Steven Maurer p.s. Some of my opinions on these dumb subjects..... 1) I leave the toilet seat down in my own house, but up in any public restroom (you can't trust the next guy not to just start spraying). 2) I love smooth legs. I love girls who want to please me so much that they do so. I, of course, reciprocate (beard / no beard ). 3) I quite enjoy looking at those sexy girls put up on billboards by the (California) Milk-Advisory board. Though I am allergic to milk, I am as quite prepared as milk to Do A Body Good. :-> 4) Person-holes is too restricted. How about Creature-holes?? :-> 5) I am as confused by the decisions of males as I am of females. I grok the phrase "(Men/Women)!! Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em".