Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amdcad!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-mrvax!usrgrp From: usrgrp@mrvax.DEC (Rick Christensen, DTN 231-7471) Newsgroups: net.social Subject: social comment Message-ID: <467@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 08:20:13 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.467 Posted: Thu Feb 7 08:20:13 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Feb-85 23:13:21 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 22 >Greg, I don't know if you realize what you said, but this is an extremely >insulting comment to many groups, including divorced people, 'liberated' >women (whatever that is) and most other people. >Ten or 20 years ago, couples stayed together more than they do today. The >reason for this was that women were financially dependent upon their men. >They stayed home and kept house, he went out and made money. As women join -> the job market, they become more independent and no longer HAVE to take the -> garbage men have been feeding them for years. Look at things-- back then, -> men cheated on their wives, lied to them, beat them (and their children), -> and were generally nasty. Women were definite second class citizens, little -> more than unpaid nannies and sexual slaves. None of this is any different >than it is today, in many ways, except women are now more able to survive >on their own. If the alternatives are starving and a few bruises, you learn >to take the bruises. I dont know if YOU realize what YOU said, but I take exception to the five lines above. You seem to imply that this abhorrent behavior was the general rule rather than the exception, personally I do not remember it being so. *RICK*