dgross@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Dave Gross) (01/03/90)
{From "The Forty-Nine Percent Majority" edited by David and Brannon, 1976}
WHY WE OPPOSE VOTES FOR MEN
by Alice Duer Miller
Alice Duer Miller's amusing but effective rejoinder to those
who would exclude women from public affairs has a contemporary
ring, yet was written in 1915. She clearly perceived, as did
few of her (or our) contemporaries, that men's penchant for
violence was at least as dangerous to society as any trait
ascribed to women.
1) Because man's place is in the army.
2) Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by
fighting about it.
3) Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer look up
to them.
4) Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural sphere
and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms, uniforms, and
drums.
5) Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and
political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to
force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government.
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than $10 billion.turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) (01/03/90)
[Further discussion along these lines should probably go to talk.politics.misc -- AMBAR] In article <1989Dec26.191501.21605@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, dgross@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Dave Gross) writes: > WHY WE OPPOSE VOTES FOR MEN > > by Alice Duer Miller > > ... while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders > them particularly unfit for the task of government. The irony in this last is that government is about the application of force. If appeal to force is a "male" (patriarchal?) value and mode, then government is, by its nature, a "male" institution. Those who do not like settling political disagreements by appeal to force should join the ranks of the anarchists and libertarians who seek to end or limit government power. Russell