[UA] Re: [UA][OT] UA unintenionally sexist? (LONG!)

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 08:47 AM 09/02/2000 +1000, you wrote:
>Maybe it's a cultural thing.  I certainly don't feel powerless; I'm a
white male
>in a society created by white males for the empowerment of white males.  If I
>was richer (I live below the poverty line), I'd be King of the world.

I think it was Ken Hite who pointed out to me that, as hetro Christian
white American men, it's drastically unlikely that any social event will
ever happen to us from which we cannot recover.

>> Unfortunately, there's this climate of fear that has
>> grown from labeling things *sexist* or *racist* in America.  The end
result?
>
>Don't forget that I'm not American.  Things are a little different over here.
>Right now, for instance, racism is a pretty big topic, and a lot of people
are
>discussing it on a regular basis.

To throw some fat on the fire... when my wife spent a summer in Sydney, she
came away with the impression that Australian society is far, far more
sexist than American society.

-G.
"I know people who have gotten laid in real life because of Everquest." 
	-- For my money, the scariest sentence John Tynes ever wrote.

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