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In article <1315@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>, pepke@ds1.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
writes:
> When was the last time you heard men recieve the credit for public
> sanitation, anesthesia, vaccinations, contraception, civil liberties?

History classes, from elementary school through college; TV specials and
retrospectives; newspapers; historical novels; etc.

> An awful lot of feminist rhetoric amounts to a tunnel-vision of history,

Some of it does, but I do not agree that "an awful lot" of it does.  Even
at its worst, too, it's not any more so than mainstream history.

The posting I followed up said that male dominance was a myth.  This very
much contradicts my experience.  In this culture (and throughout most of
recorded history), men have been consistently rewarded for asserting
dominance over women (and each other), and women have been punished for
asserting dominance over men.

I am not saying that this is "good" for either men or women, and I am not
certainly not saying that dominance has been the only force which has shaped
our society and culture.  However, it is an important one, and asserting
that it either does not exist or is irrelevant is silly at best, and
oppressive at worst.
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