Re: [Fwd: Re: International Women's Day]

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Margaret Trawick wrote:

>  >
> > Well we do share this planet. It'd be nice if we could get along
> > better, in a nonexploitative nonhierarchical way, no? Or am I just
> > some quivering sentimentalist?
> >
> > Doug
>
> Doug, you have to know the answer to this question.  I do not mean this
> personally.  Just responding to you as though you were the hypothetical,
> generic male human being.   When you are the exploiter, at the top of the
> hierarchy, you do not ask whether niceness should be part of the agenda.
> When the tables are turned, only then do you ask.
>
> People and other creatures quiver from fear, and not from sentimentality.

Well you had recently wondered why you don't kill us all. As below.

> It is just an interesting question, why.  If female human beings have been
> exploited and misused by males since time began, if the most fundamental
> class division is between female and male human beings, and if females can
> get along fine without males, except for basic reproductive purposes, then
> why do not females simply eliminate males, cull them as male calves or
> goats or sheep are culled by farmers and sold for meat.  Because if males
> are allowed to reach adolescence, they only make trouble from then on out.
> They fight and kill one another by nature.  Better to cull them before they
> reach this stage.

<http://www.bcn.net/~jpiazzo/scum.htm>: "Life in this society being,
at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant
to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking
females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system,
institute complete automation and destroy the male sex."

> Please understand that I could not advocate such a program.

Imagine my relief.

Doug