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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (121183)	12/9/2003 2:50:17 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You said: "Most women who somehow managed to achieve leadership roles suffered Joan of Arc's fate & so-called medieval witches--burned at the stake." That's patently ridiculous. You're making a huge sweeping revisionist generalization from a relatively isolated and minor phenomenon in human history. Yes, witches were burned. But they were not leaders, they were outcasts and marginal individuals more often than not. It was scapegoating behavior, not "job preservation". And "most women" who achieved leadership roles throughout history were not burned at the stake.