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On 9/13/2012 8:08 AM, Scott Kimball wrote:
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silly and childish compare with shrewish and bitchy on the value scale?</span><br
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<div>This
is such such a typical patriarchal response to a woman speaking up that
it would be comical if it were not the case that this man actually
lives in our community. Whenever a woman speaks up and challenges the
men, she becomes "the bitch". It doesn't matter what she says.Her words
are not heard. Only the challenge to male authority is heard. Compare
this to when a man speaks out. When a man speaks out, he is heard and
his thoughts are acknowledged to be worthy of discussion. Men can
"reason" together in groups. Women, however, are too emotional and,
perhaps, too intellectually inferior to be worthy of discussion. And,
again, if a woman brings up the claim that men are
being patriarchal or misogynistic, she is berated for being divisive or
deviating from the important discussion (you know, the one the men are
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<div>I find the discussions on this listserv to be very
mean spirited, and most importantly, disorganizing. This is not the
mode of discourse folks should use who want to organize for economic
and social justice. You cannot work towards building a mass movement if
you can't stop being an asshole. </div>
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Actually it was s'posed ta be at least half in jest, not only
provocative.<br>
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The other half is rather a matter of cell biology.<br>
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("When I grow up... I think I'd like to be a cell." - Barbara Vertel,
cell biologist, Rosalind Franklin Univ.)<br>
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Y: What sort of woman would you like, Adam?<br>
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A: Wow, dude. I'd really like a woman who would always love me and be
good<br>
to me and care for me and understand me....<br>
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Y: Adam, Adam. Be realistic, man. A woman like that would cost you
an Arm and a Leg.<br>
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A. Hey. What can I get for just a Rib?<br>
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