--- Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <snippage throughout>
[Russell I think?] > > > For someone to want to restore a men only > institution could well be a > > > desire to return to misogyny, but it might not. > I'm not sure that we > > > should immediately assume they're > > > just a bunch of scumbag racists. And sexists. > > >And almost certainly anti-Semites. > > > >I can't expect someone in Australia to understand > >the dynamic of the American > >South, just as I can't be expected to understand > >Australian social dynamics. > >Let me assure you, the men proposing to start this > new "Southern Military > >Institute" are definitely racist and sexist, and > based on what I know of similar > >people, I have no doubt they harbor anti-Jewish > feelings too. > > *general noises of agreement* > > These institutions prided themselves on hating > everybody who wasn't "a > southern gentleman", which included (at various > times) Blacks, Jews, Latins, > Catholics, women, Muslims, immigrants, Asians, the > Irish, etc., etc. I > doubt their intentions are honorable, and there's a > lot of historical precedent to back you up. While I mostly agree with these points [my "qualifications" for generalizing about Southern maledom include 13 years of living in Louisiana and 8 in Texas (I'm not counting childhood years in the latter case, which would bring the total to 13 also)], I do think there are some who _would_ enter such an institute with honorable intentions -- they might become sorely disillusioned and leave when the nastiness of the majority manifested. Worse, they could succumb (?sp) to the ugliness....but I don't really think that single-gender groups are a bad thing (although a sister-or-brother group is a good idea, as already pointed out previously). > Discrimination is vile in all its forms, even that > which masquerades as ethnocentrism. Agreed. Debbi who never gets up on the wrong side of the stall herself, oh, noooo..../\/` (that's supposed to be a lightning-bolt :} ) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
