From: Paul Gallagher <pcg-AT-panix.com>
Subject:  Re: M-I: Re: Harsh words
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:55:32 -0500 (EST)


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>     I used nearly the exact same language in a letter to the local
> newspaper (the Bloomington *Pantagraph* describing the workers
> (male *and* female) at Mitsubishi who had taken the side of the
> company in the dispute over sexual harassment there. I admit I

The power relationship is fundamentally different. Zeynep got
Adolfo O. expelled because his words hurt her feelings. It's a plausible,
if possibly incorrect, supposition that, since other people's feelings
are not given equivalent consideration, her gender played a role.
But let's suppose that to say this is the vilest "sexist lie"
imaginable; even then, defending Adolfo O. is not equivalent to defending
the company in a dispute over sexual harassment. Zeynep is the one in
power here. Even if we imagine Adolfo words were the sexist lies Zeynep
calls them, defending Zeynep is more like defending a female middle 
manager who claims to have been sexually insulted by a male worker.

If Adolfo or Siddarth's words shock you with their sexism, I could point
out some text on the Internet that might awake you from sheltered life
(and dogmatic slumbers).

Zeynep T. complains about the mote in Adolfo's eye, when Adolfo
is basically on the side of the broad masses of people, while remaining
silent about the beam in her own eye, for example, the nest of would-be
Hoover Institute hacks over which she broods.

> can, and besides Paul with is constant Stalin baiting is hardly
> the proper person to leap to the defense of Siddarth, who I suppose
> can defend himself. Sexism *IS* scabbing. And

I think you're confusing me with Paul Zarembka.

What else besides scabbing is scabbing?


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