From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
Newsgroups: alt.feminism
Subject: Re: Mysogynist Bullshit
Date: 21 Dec 92 00:06:15 GMT
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In article <1992Dec10.142534.16313@cs.cornell.edu> jean@cs.cornell.edu (Jean M. Petrosino) writes:
>What is this crap about 'all women are good for is doing the dishes' and 
>'women have small feet so they can get closer to the kitchen sink'?  I can take
>a joke, but this is over-stepping the lines of taste.
>
>How about this one:
>	Why do men name their penises?
>				-Because they don't want a stranger making 
>				 99% of their decisions for them.
>

Akkk, I just realized that I never named my penis. Does that mean that
all my decisions have been made by a stranger? This is getting stranger
all the time. :^}
 
>gee, maybe women's feet are smaller because our shoes are more restrictive. And
>by the way, can any of you men tell me why high heels are considered so 
>attractive?  Could it be the fact that they keep women at a disadvantage? (No
>man can argue this with me until they wear a pair of high heels to work, etc. 
>for a week - then we can talk)  It's so easy to balance on a 3 cm heel...and oh
>so comfortable too!!  And what about those lovely slippery soles! Those serve
>a wonderful purpose for walking now don't they? 
>
>And Robert Shaeffer - don't give me that sociobiological crap about men being 
>innately superior to women because of testosterone.  We don't know the true 
>capacities of the female body because medical science finds it much more 
>interesting to study male anatomy and simply generalize their findings to
>female anatomy.  

Bullshit, it is just easier and simpler. No monthly changes to take into
account, and no pregnancies to complicate long term studies.

>I say women are biologically superior because we can walk around bleeding for
>a week and not die - let's see a man try that one.  

Now that is a winning argument. I can see it now. Women are biologically
superior because of their period! Why did noone see it before?

>                                                     And how about all the 
>evidence that women's physical strength is in their ability to maintain
>physical activity as well as enduring physical pain longer then men? You never
>seem to want to mention that.  Men may be stronger in the short term, but
>women can out last them.

So then you do believe in biological superiority arguments. Or are you just
blowing smoke?

Curiously, women seek medical aid more often than men, even excluding
gyn/obs visits. It may be true that women have more capacity for endurance,
but in practice, it would seem that they do not use it. Kinda makes one
wonder.
 
>	"I don't mean to be strident and overbearing, but you know, 
>	NICE just doesn't cut it anymore.  Like a lot of women out
>	there tonight, I MAD.  I'm mad because we're 51% of the 
>	population and only 2% of the Senate.  I'm made because 
>	406 men in the Senate get a pool, a sauna, and a gym, and
>	WE get 6 hairdryers and a ping-pong table.  I'm mad because
>	in a Seminole Oklahoma police station there's a picture of 
>	a naked woman on the wall that says, "Women make bad cops."
>	I'm mad because despite the fact that we scrub the floors, 
>	wash all the dishes, have all the babies, and commit VERY 
>	LITTLE of the crime, still we only make 58 cents on the dollar.
>	And I don't know about the rest of you women out there, but
>	I don't care if people call me a feminist or a FRUITCAKE!
>	What I'm gonna do is get into my car and drive to the center-
>	most point of the United States and climb the tallest tower and
>	shout, "Hey, don't get me wrong, we love ya, but WHO THE HELL
>	DO YOU MEN THINK YOU ARE!!"
>				-Annie Potts as Bette Davis
>				 Designing Women

Now this is the absolute funniest thing that I have seen posted. In the
same newsgroup where Robert Shaeffer was lambasted for mentioning an
article in the Enquirer, in almost the same thread, he gets quoted
wizdom from a TV actress. Wonderfull sources all around. I used to 
occasionally watch D.W. if I passed it when channel flipping,
but after the episode where they advocated violence as a solution to
pornography, I decided to not watch it anymore. I believe that it was
the same Annie Potts who repeatedly ran over a newstand with her car 
for carrying a magazine she found offensive. 


Rich

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