Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!qubix!steven From: steven@qubix.UUCP (Steven Maurer) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: That boring matter of controlled women Message-ID: <822@qubix.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 18:50:27 EST Article-I.D.: qubix.822 Posted: Tue Feb 7 18:50:27 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 22:47:47 EST References: <517@orca.UUCP>, <259@oliveb.UUCP> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA Lines: 50 x > I support Sophie's assertion that most societies have strict customs, > or even laws, to ensure that women copulate only with their husbands. > Laws only exist to get us to do something we would prefer not to (or to > forbid things we want to do) when custom is not strong enough to enforce > correct behvior. Few men want to get married, for instance, but custom > bullies most of them into "doing the right thing". Even custom won't keep > men from transferring their affections to other women, however, and we need > laws to regulate divorce. "Few men want to get married" eh? "but custom bullies most of them into 'doing the right thing'" ???? Oh well, I suppose there must be about 1 Billion Bullied husbands out there, crying into their pillows each night on the unfairness of it all... > In general there haven't had to be laws controlling the movement > of wives because custom (and the vast army of women who keep track of > the behavior of other women in support of custom) is sufficient. And what is this army called? The Army Corps of Oppression of Fellow Women? Vee vill keep you opprezzed, you vemen!! Sieg Mann!! Sieg Mann!! Sieg Mann!! >> I understand that women >> are not allowed to drive cars in Saudi Arabia, but that is a >> society in a state of rapid change. Tom Long Yes, yes, I agree with you. But if you think that societies oppresses both its men AND its women, just think of what those societies do to their children... FORCING THEM TO LEARN ALL THOSE UNPRONOUNCABLE FOREIGN LANGUAGES!! (it makes my blood boil!!). Think of how you would feel, with unfamiliar languages and customs forced upon you when you were but a babe in the womb! Terrible isn't it? Is it no wonder that they all grow up to be heathens, and nonfeminists, programmed as they are from birth. As a solution, I propose an immediate campaign of cultural genocide, to rid this world of people who have different customs than our own. That would certainly teach them not to behave exactly like us...... Steven Maurer