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From: usrgrp@mrvax.DEC (Rick Christensen, DTN 231-7471)
Newsgroups: net.social
Subject: social comment
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 08:20:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 08:20:13 1985
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>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*