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To: SauronOfMordor
Your observations are valid, Sauron.

Furthermore, in contemporary society, men show all the signs of an oppressed minority: lower life expectancy; higher proclivity of almost all diseases; higher alcoholism, suicide, imprisonment, depression, heart attack, hypertension. It is men who die on the battlefields, who are last in the lifeboats, and who stand as the ladies sit.

It can be argued that the toll that stress takes on men, e.g. the heart attacks and early death rates in the corporate world, is the result of the exploitation of the male minority by the female majority.

However, as the father of a daughter and a son, and as someone who loves people, whether they be men or women, I definitely favor a healthy balance. I'm sure you do too.

The best way for this to happen is for government to prevent discrimination on the basis of sex and for society to encourage everyone to pursue happiness in his or her own way.

I think there has been a balance throughout most of the world's history. E.g., when women were not allowed to own property, it was men who died on the battlefields.

I am not disagreeing with what you have said. I'm just making a few observations.

7 posted on 10/30/2002 7:21:29 AM PST by Savage Beast
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To: Savage Beast
...and who stand as the ladies sit.

And many times get to listen to a woman's silence after holding a door for her.

10 posted on 10/30/2002 7:29:53 AM PST by nygoose
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To: Savage Beast
government to prevent discrimination on the basis of sex and for society to encourage everyone to pursue happiness in his or her own way.

To incompatible goals. The government should not be concerned at all about any sort of noncoercive discrimination except in its own employment and activities where it should base its decisions on merit alone.

219 posted on 11/02/2002 8:33:18 AM PST by arthurus
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