gazit@lear.cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) (10/22/89)
A note to the moderator: The subject seems to me as a good one for s.feminism, but since half of my articles to soc.feminism end up in some bit-bucket I set the follow-up to soc.men. Please leave it that way. [I've complied with Hillel's request on this, though I think the subject is fine for soc.feminism. If you experience problems posting, send mail to feminism-request@ncar.ucar.edu and we'll try to resolve them. We think the earlier problem was fixed some weeks ago. - MHN] Here is an opinion by a feminist author (Brownmiller) about men && war: "War provides men with the perfect psychologic backdrop to give vent to their contempt for women. The very maleness of the military - the brute power of weaponry exclusive in their hands, the spiritual bonding of men at arms, the manly discipline of orders given and orders obeyed, the simple logic of the hierarchical command - confirms for men what they long suspect, that women are peripheral, irrelevant to the world that counts, passive spectators to the action in the center ring." Here is an opinion by a MCP (me): "WAR IS HELL." Comments anyone?