----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:30 AM Subject: Re: Urgent Suggested April NPR Radio Broadcast on Women in Power/Gender and G...
> Hey, you are a perfect example of the sort of superficial leftist who picks > apart an excellent start at something you pretend to support by niggling > about how it just doesn't go far enough. > > Come on, let's show some positive support for these ideas, instead of getting > anal about "words like Frenchman." > > The problem is not "words like Frenchman" but the massive male domination of > our political environment and the everyday financial and physical > implications for women. The implications are everywhere and they are killing > us. > > Like, why is child support so low that it is a given that a divorced woman > with two kids isn't going to be having any more, while it is "only fair" that > a man thinks he should be able to marry a younger woman and have as many more > as he wants? > > Why is this? > > Patriarchal control of the political apparatus, that's why. > > I don't care about "words like Frenchmen." I care about real political power. > > Jan VanDenBerg >
