To: lorrie coey who wrote (45029 ) 5/3/1999 12:05:00 AM From: Bob Lao-Tse Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Sorry Lorrie, but you're wrong. Repeatedly."...and what's a "common feminist"?" view , wherein common is clearly an adjective modifying "view" and not "feminist." Since I still have no reason to believe that you are stupid or ignorant, but are rather just under the sway of some serious neurosis, I think that you knew this and simply created a straw man (woman? person?) argument to suit your wishes. any of the traditional macho crap that your "translation" charges because it's contrary to my own experiences. My only point is that, as you do in the end of your post, feminists often make the charge that women somehow interact with the world in a fundamentally different manner from men, solely by dint of their genetic makeup ("Women are geneticly in opposition to the male prime directive, which is all about territorial reptilian instincts and blood lust...") I think this is untenable. I simply believe that the traits that are "in opposition to... territorial reptilian instincts and blood lust" are not a result of two X's, but are a result of powerlessness. I think that, as women gain power, they have already and will continue to exhibit more and more "territorial reptilian instincts and blood lust." And that's really fine. Not that we need more blood lust, but you've got just as much right to it as we do, and frankly there are a lot of men (myself included) who refuse to play those games, so if you want to, help yourself. Just don't turn around and try to tell me how bad I am.
