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To: Mark Adams who wrote (135403)	11/21/2001 1:13:35 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

That the playing field isn't level just increases the degree of challenge. There is no such thing as a level playing field anywhere in life at any time in any endeavor. Further more, its wasted effort trying to make it so. The effort to make things fair for women in this country has had one lasting and truly annoying outcome for me personally. Every time I achieved something through my own considerable effort and skill there was some azzhole standing there saying that the only reason I received what they didn't was because they had preferential treatment for women. You can only imagine how much this pisses me off because I've worked really hard to get where I've gotten. OTOH there was a time when I wouldn't have been allowed in the game at all. I've run a 3:56 marathon and when I was a girl it was believed women weren't capable of running distance (or you would damage yourself so that you couldn't have children!). I remember the first women to crash the Boston Marathon before they allowed women. Sport and money are to me the two most equitable contests around primarily because the outcomes aren't very subjective (even though there is certainly cheating in sport in regards to drugs and of course there is cheating in money). That 3:56 put me finishing in front of about 4000 guys, some of them 20 something Marines. No one can dispute that outcome. Same with money, you either have that profit booked or you don't. It's not subject to some middle management guy judging whether or not you are the right guy for the job. All that aside, the effort to bring about "fairness" in this country has reeked havoc. How many more groups of people can we give victim status to before we are a nation of victims? You have to refuse the label, which means accepting the fact that nothing is "fair" and you simply have to play the cards dealt to you. This means using your apparent disadvantage to build strengths. When you do that, you start to see other's advantages as their weakness. The advantage of being an "insider" can also be a distinct disadvantage. You can't make the world fair. The truth is that every attempt to rid the world of some evil brings an entirely new evil. Every attempt to bring about fairness creates unfairness somewhere else.