Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?

• Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
• Next message: Paul Gallagher: "Re: Evolution, "adaptation", and what's currently adaptive"
• Previous message: Marc LEDENT: "Re: IXKENDAA TA NG'AONHAK TUSKUALDUNAK/CHILDREN OF THE COPPER AGE/LES ENFANTS DE L'AGE DE CUIVRE!"

In <3233890C.6661@megafauna.com> Stephen Barnard <steve@megafauna.com>
writes:
>
>Mary Beth Williams wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
>Another flippant reply that mocks Bryant. How do you think an ethical
>man feels when someone accuses him of sanctioning rape?

Perhaps similar to how an *ethical* anthropoligist feels about being
accused of supporting sociobiology?

MB Williams
Dept. of Anthro., UMass-Amherst

• Next message: Paul Gallagher: "Re: Evolution, "adaptation", and what's currently adaptive"
• Previous message: Marc LEDENT: "Re: IXKENDAA TA NG'AONHAK TUSKUALDUNAK/CHILDREN OF THE COPPER AGE/LES ENFANTS DE L'AGE DE CUIVRE!"