Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alan From: alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: disgusting! Message-ID: <2688@allegra.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Aug-84 13:38:06 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.2688 Posted: Sat Aug 11 13:38:06 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Aug-84 01:17:25 EDT References: <28@ism780b.UUCP> <1201@nsc.UUCP>, <1577@sun.uucp> <2648@allegra.UUCP> <939@pyuxn.UUCP>, <1607@sun.uucp> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 30 Sunny Kirsten writes: > Remember, there is usually some validity to stereotypes, > or they would evolve to more closely reflect the reality of majority cases. > Stereotypes ARE > labels which ignore reality, but the average of reality is usually the basis > of the stereotype, is it not? > Yet if you wish to discuss a > class of individuals you DON'T know personally, stereotypes are your first > basis of trying to relate. Notice that every one of these arguments could be used to defend racism, sexism, religious intolerance, etc. If you're going to accept some forms of bigotry, but reject others, you have to be careful to cover yourself. Lisa Chabot is good at this. The trick is to choose your words carefully. While Lisa would never be caught spouting "minority stereotypes," she's quick to defend "majority stereotypes." They're two entirely different things. They must be, since Lisa uses different words to describe them. See? -- Alan S. Driscoll AT&T Bell Laboratories