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Re: Female wanted

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From: Robert Wille
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:39
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In article <1992Aug20.005744.20465@u.washington.edu>, wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug19.212532.9187@ninja.zso.dec.com> chen@fungus.zso.dec.com (Chao Chen) writes:
|> >Now hold on here....  Don't jump to conclusions so fast.  How do you know 
|> >that if this original poster isn't a female and wanted another female to 
|> >share this two bedroom apartment with? Would you call that gender 
|> >discrimination?  
|> 
|>   Yes, that's still discrimination. In this case it seems to be legal
|> discrimination, though.
|> 
|> >                I can understand where a female might be a bit 
|> >uncomfortable sharing an apartment with a stranger of the opposit 
|> >sex (or vice-versa).  I don't think discrimination was the intent here.

I believe a person has every right to be choosey about whom they live with.
Calling this gender discrimination is ridiculous.  If it is discrimination,
then we're probably all very guilty of it.  I happen to discriminate against
homosexuals and child molestors when I choose a baby-sitter.

-- 
Robert

There is evidence that the brain is like a computer.  If that's true, 
then there really aren't any stupid people.  Just people running DOS.
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Subject: Re: Female wanted                                     
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