On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Cat wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Nils Philippsen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > I hope you will also speak out whenever you hear males being sexist -
> >
> > In general yes. Sometimes (depends on if the person put down can handle it
> > by herself), I just lean back, watch the battle and applaud afterwards :-)
> > To be serious: not every person wants to get unsolicited assistance in
> > such cases.
> >
> I would personally find it more important for men to object to the sexism
> that takes place out of women's earshot. I can defend myself, true,
> and I would prefer to do so rather than have some guy jump in and do it
> for me (in most cases). The place to combat it would be behind the
> scenes. If there weren't sexism out of earshot, then people wouldn't have
> to watch what they say, or be careful when members of the opposite sex
> were actually around, wouldn't you agree?
Um, didn't think of that when I wrote my response... nobody's perfect --
I'm far from it. I recall a situation when I was serving my military duty
where two people (a man and a woman) were talking about "kicking spouses
if they don't work as expecte". I didn't stand up then, but I also didn't
when someone else was promoting capital punishment to be reinstated here
in Germany. Some of them were my superiors and I had little
self-confidence back then.
Nils
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