[soc.feminism] Childbirth

davej@yang.earlham.edu (David A. Jeroslow) (11/16/90)

Ok, all, thanks for response on that last quote about Lesbian
relationships.

Here is another one from a homosexual black female.  What is the
response to this?

"Women are naturally more liberal, especially after they have
children.  There is something about creating a human INSIDE your body
that makes you appreciate it more than a man can ever.  It allows you
to step outside numbers and categories of economic classes.  You
realize the human aspect of groups in suffrage.  You realize that
human babies are starving in the ghettos, not just a number on a page
that can be erased or changed.  By having a human, women naturally
become more human.  Sadly, most men will never have this experience.
That's a tragedy."

Any thoughts on this?

gazit@cs.duke.EDU (Hillel Gazit) (11/17/90)

In article <4197@yang.earlham.edu> davej@yang.earlham.edu (David A. Jeroslow) writes:
>"Women are naturally more liberal, especially after they have children..."

\begin{sarcasm}
Now I know why some women fought so hard for Prohibition
or against the ERA!  Just because they had no kids!
\end{sarcasm}

[Please note that David A. Jeroslow is quoting a friend of his.  --CLT]