Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?

Mary Beth Williams (mbwillia@ix.netcom.com(Mary)
9 Sep 1996 00:31:29 GMT

In <50v8k3$1h02@argo.unm.edu> mycol1@unm.edu (Bryant) writes:
>
>In article <50v4s2$pmk@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>,
>Mary Beth Williams <mbwillia@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>Shocked, Mary Beth said in turn:
>>*Stop pulling*? Didn't know I had started.

>To my knowledge, you individually have not.

:::snip::::

>P.s.: The implication that I am married (you asked when I stopped
beating
>my wife) offends the hell out of me.

I'm sorry, Bryant, if I offended you through the use of a *stock
phrase* with which I assume most culturally literate Americans are
familiar. I promise in the future to simplify my level of discourse so
as not to offend you.

MB Williams
Dept. of Anthro., UMass-Amherst