From: smccabe@armstrong.ecn.purdue.edu (Sarah A McCabe)
Subject: Re: Centrist position on abortion?
Keywords: You expect me to mark my deletions?  Dream on...
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:45:39 GMT

In article <nyikos.721342490@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
>In <1992Nov3.022212.15949@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran) writes:
>
>>Wait.  Wait.  Wait.  Re-read the original article. You've gotten my
>>position completly confused.
>
>Not hard to do where Keith is concerned.  I originally took his offer
>to be "doer" to my body as a simple gross-out, the way I always took
>such harassments in high school and college.  It wasn't until Sarah
>McCabe made it very clear to me that it was an offer, to be taken at
>face value, that I realized what a serious case of sexual harassment
>it was.

For the new folks out there who may not have been around when this
whole thing started, I thought I would try and inject a little
truth into Petie's paranoid delusions.  Brief recap:

Petey Honey started ranting about how having one's bodily autonomy
violated for nine months was an "inconvenience" which women should
gladly bear for the sake of bringing new life into this world.  I
(callous skeptic that I am) decided to query Petey Sweety on the
strength of his convictions.  I therefore made the offer that if
I should ever become pregnant, I would forego getting an elective
abortion and in return he would allow the person of my choice to 
use and abuse his body for nine months.  It was a straightforward
offer and one I did not make lightly.  At this point, Keith (whose
earlier posts had held some of the inspiration for my original offer)
stepped forward and offered to be the agent of my infliction (or "doer",
although I much prefer the more medieval term of "champion") to
Petey Luv.  Well, much to my surprise, Petie Dear not only never
accepted my offer, but he never even responded to it.  However, 
several months later, he continues to foam at the mouth about Keith's
alleged sexual harrasment.  I was quite puzzled Petey Honey's continual
blame of Keith for this offer despite the fact that I had often corrected
his misatribution.  However I have developed a theory that Petey Dear
has such a low opinion of women that in his mind, we cannot be held
accountable for our tresspasses, we are just not capable of making moral
decisions on our own and therefore, some man must have led us astray and
he is ultimately to blame.  This also explains why he continually proposes 
only to punish abortionists (whom he identifies as predominantly male) for
the sin of abortion since it is their responsibility for leading women
women (brainless creatures that we are) into the sin of procuring abortions. 

Well, boys and girls, what conclusions can we draw from this story?

1.  Petey Sweety is both a raving hypocrite and a raving misogynist in that he 
wants to stop abortions regardless of the cost to millions of American 
women as long as he personally is not inconvenienced in any way.  

2.  Petey Honey does not grasp the concept of sexual harrasment.

3.  Petey Luv is a raving bigot who does not acknowledge the fact that
some women actually make life altering decisions without the paternal
guidance of some male keeper.

OK, so to anyone who has read even a small sampling of Petey Dear's
writings, these conclusions were already self evident, but for the 
one or two new readers out there who may not have yet seen Petey's true
character, I did want to point them out.  

Sarah McCabe
(who typed this whole message in all by herself without the help or
guidance of any male.  And if you don't believe I could, I am sure one
of my ex-boyfriends on the net will vouch for my abilities.)


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