From: behanna@phoenix.syl.nj.nec.com (Chris BeHanna)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Cages suck (women cagers)
Date: 23 Jul 92 04:38:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc.

In article <ceOgA8a00WBOQ1IykB@andrew.cmu.edu> ch3c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christine Hogan) writes:
>Why do women let their Boy Friends drive their cars? 
>1. Because men are hung up about driving and being in control for one. 

	Bullshit.  I, without thinking, walk toward the *passenger* side of
my girlfriend's car when we go somewhere.  Then she says, "You can drive."
It's a new Saturn SL2, so I'm not going to say no.  Think before you make
such sweeping statements, Christine.  Your statement would be as bad as me
writing "All women make hasty, untrue generalizations."

>2. Because women get sick and tired of the boy friend's back seat driving.

	About the only time I make a comment is if she's left her turn signal
on, or if I'm not sure she has seen a hazard.  She is free to do the same when
I'm driving, and she does in fact do so.  When she does, I tell her "thank
you" because she's usually right and I'm *MAN* enough to recognize that.  See
my paragraph above about "hasty generalizations."

>Men get super aggressive in cars. MAybe this is a factor in date rape.

	Now you have gone too far.  I would make a sweeping generalization
of my own about teases, but I'm afraid that would start a flame war of epic
proportions, so I won't (Oh, I did already?  Oops...).  At any rate, the
generalization about men getting super aggressive in cars is pure-dee-wrong.
You should see my father drive sometime--grandfather city, and neither my
brother nor I are fathers yet.  Your date rape comment is way out of line in
any event.  Date rape, IMHO, occurs due to lack of communication in the best
case, or due to an asshole in the worst case.  In any event, very few men
are rapists.  I, myself, I am proud to say, am not one of them.

	Take all your denigrating, froth-at-the-mouth, ultrafeminist PC
statements, and stuff them someplace.

	Clarifier to those who would rip my balls off for the above statement:
I have no problem with women standing up for themselves.  I have no problem
with women getting their rights.  I *do* have a serious problem with reverse
discrimination, with "screw men to the wall" attitudes, and with "no matter
what men do, they're wrong and they should be castrated/imprisoned/enslaved/
killed/tortured" attitudes.  I also have a serious problem with PC anything.

	Enough of this shit.  ObMC:  It's awful nice having a 600lb
paperweight on my back porch courtesy of a woman driver (heh, heh--couldn't
resist :-).  It'll be much nicer when I get a check and make the paperweight
into a motorcycle again.

>|Chris Hogan                    |         1127                 |     
>|ch3c+@andrew.cmu.edu           | Soft as the massacre of Suns |
>|Toy Monger's Woman             | By Evening's Sabres slain    |        
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	Interesting item for the .sig of a person who made comments like those
quoted above, don't you think?

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Chris BeHanna		DoD# 114      1983 Harley-Davidson FXWG Wide Glide
behanna@syl.nj.nec.com	              1984 Dodge Omni GLH (well, almost)

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