On 11 Apr 1999 taguebwREMOVE at wfu.edu wrote:
> In article <Pine.WNT.3.96.990408094253.-872721E-100000 at Guinevere.unm.edu>,
> Linnea Ista <lkista at unm.edu> wrote:
>> [snip]
>> > Someone wrote a couple of days ago that there was a riot of white males on
> > campus at U of Michigan. That struck me as really ironic. When WE are
> > feeling mistreated, it is all in our heads, we have to be diplomatic, we
> > have to PROVE it to all and sundry and above all, NOT APPEAR TO BE ANGRY.
> > Yet these men are feeling the pain of losing priviledges, which must be
> > bewildering and uncomfortable, and they get to be pissed off and run amok!
> > And no one says that "Oh, they are very angry and unpleasant individuals"
> > like it is a character flaw or something. There is quick analysis of just
> > what they are angry about, and even quite a bit of sympathy for the poor
> > dears!
> [snip]
> >
> > Linnea
>> Not to stray too far from the topic, but as I recall, the riots were at
> Michigan State and had to do with the loss of their basketball team in the
> NCAA tournament. Not that that's a particularly good reason to run amok
> either. But if we are speaking about the same incident, it did not
> (directly) have to do with any gender issues.
Sorry, I thought someone else on the list had implied it was about
race/gender issue. My mistake!
L
>> --
> My 2 electrons,
>> Brian
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