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Christopher Mountford <cjmount@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> wrote:

>There are some feminists which are very familiar with your view, 
>which is very common. I think that the very problem which Rosie
>was trying to address was the fact that 'expressing an opinion'
>specifically one which challenges the underlying structures of
>thought, patriarchal structures, will 'make you look like a 
>whining petulant nobody'. That's the very problem. She knows it 
>and doesn't need you to point it out. Not only that but you have
>failed to see that the point is to be able to challenge authority. 

What rosie did was to post a piece of *private* e-mail publicly and then 
whine about its content.  She felt compelled to publicly refute a private 
conversation, which is a much grosser breach of common human decency than 
a couple of four letter words.

Second, the content of the letter was not particularly abusive, the 
writer did not call her names or attack her, and she was given full 
opportunity to defend her views if she wished.  Then *she* proceeded to 
level a personal attack at the writer and conveniently neglected to 
mention any of her points at all.

Sometimes a whine is just a whine.
-- 
Larry Caldwell  larryc@teleport.com