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In article <3bin94$8iq@ceylon.gte.com> mbr0@roger.gte.com (Mark Rosenthal) writes:
>In article <3bid7h$pbk@news.bu.edu>, Erika Stokes <estokes@bu.edu> wrote:
>>Am I alone in thinking that was an incredibly sexist and 
>>prejudiced post?
>
>Thanks for speaking up.  It's reassuring to find a woman willing to speak
>up when the issue is gender bias against men.

   I suspect that some would consider the preference of a female
tutor to be an attitude that somehow *denigrates* women.  The
statement of preference did come from a male, after all.

   With that said, I have been unable to decide how I feel about
it.  Is he a jerk because he wants a woman in the position, or
is he a jerk because he doesn't want a man?  I'm not even sure 
that I think he's a jerk at all.

   I'm also not really sure why I'm responding in this newsgroup,
except that moving the thread would obscure its context.  :-)

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