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In article <40376@unix.SRI.COM>, maslak@unix.SRI.COM (Valerie Maslak) writes:

|> Speaking of Plato, I was at Georgetown University when Bill Clinton
|> was there, and I had the interesting experience there of having an
|> instructor, a Christian Brother, exclude me, as the only woman in
|> the philosophy class, from two lectures that discussed Plato.
|> Presumably because he was uncomfortable discussing Plato in front of
|> me.  I could have complained to the dean, but this was pre-feminist-
|> consciousness, so I didn't complain, I just let this be part of what
|> convinced me to quit school. 
|> 

You mean that you *allowed* yourself to be shut out, and this is
somehow the fault of someone or something *else*?  You *could*
have done something (and almost certainly it would have been
effective), but you *chose* not to?  We've all done things like
this that we regret in retrospect.  But most of us (even women
in my experience) are reluctant to blame society or culture for
such an error.
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