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>I disagree with you in the following way:
>Women have always practiced domination and exploitation
>against others if they were living in societies were men were
>equally disfunctional. This is not to say that women have not
>been oppressed based on their category as women, but
>that women are part of a variety of categories simultaneously,
>and as such they have acted as both oppressed and oppressors,
>both as victims of violence and as perpetrators.
>
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Vera, thank you very much for this and the well reasoned, balanced, kind
hearted and articulate essay that followed. I honestly feel some change
and healing taking place in me simply from reading it. It makes me a
little more hopeful for our species. In addition to our violent tendencies,
we all so share with each other some very lovely qualities that make our
faults worth working on.
will bason
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Will Bason
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