"There seems to be two poles of attitude, summed up thus: 1) "I have a problem, but nobody else gives a shit, so I'm either going to fix it myself or suffer." 2) "I have a problem, but somebody else caused it, so I'm going to demand that they fix it" There are actually more than two poles here, there is also "I have a problem, somebody else caused it, and not only am I going to try to fix it myself, I am going to demand that they work to fix it too. I believe that you have to work to solve your own problems but I also believe that those who cause the problems need to be held responsible for them as well. In most things there are seldom only 2 choices always keeping in mind that not making a choice is a choice in itself. In your scenario about what to do while the guy was being beaten, was getting to a phone and calling in help an option? finding an officer? All the choices you presented were things you could do all alone, but what about the ones that included asking for help? You may have thought about them, they weren't mentioned on your list of alternatives. "As far as the construction of "catfight" goes, it inherently trivializes female violence and anger. In a culture where females are not supposed to be violent and angry, it is required to enact this trivialization to re-sanitize the interaction under the rubric of feminity" I couldn't agreey more. Lou _______________________________________________ issues mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/issues
