Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?

Len Piotrowski (lpiotrow@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:18:27 GMT

In article <51cf7f$41l6@argo.unm.edu> mycol1@unm.edu (Bryant) writes:

>[snip]

>In article <lpiotrow.452.32387EFC@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
>Len Piotrowski <lpiotrow@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wrote:

>>In article <519ph2$6tee@musca.unm.edu> mycol1@unm.edu (Bryant) writes:
>>
>>>Wait a minute. Substitute "Black" and "jew" in there, and you can get an
>>>*even nastier* implication. OR you could stop putting words in other
>>>peoples' mouths and try to deal with their points instead.

>Lenny replied:

>>Let's see: Bryant says 'Substitute "Black"' for EOW's "destructive
>>phenotypes (aggression, dominance, violence)" and "Jews" for "other
>>phenotypes (cooperativeness, creativity)" and he wonders why anyone
>>would take exception to that? Boggles!

>...Just wanted to make sure this was seen in context by everybody.

>It should serve as sufficient support for the reasonableness of my
>creating a kill file so that Lenny's future rants will no longer bait my
>replies. I have a hard time not replying to this kind of assault on reason.

Let me understand this one clearly: when Bryant's words are put into Bryant's
context Bryant objects. That's seems eminently fair and reasonable, eh?
Especially for a scientist!

Cheers,

--Lenny__