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<DIV><FONT size=4>Joan,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Maybe we should follow Christ Church Cult Master Douglas
Wilson's train of thoughtlessness to its conclusion: Every time a woman
makes a mistake, blame her gender, then replace her with a man. Also then
every time a man makes a mistake, blame his gender, then replace him with a
woman.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Wait! He may be on to something!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>If we did the above, then over a short period of time, a great
deal of gender equity would be the result.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Poor Doug and his wipe, the other Doug. Both slept
through logic class at the UI. O Nick, What hast thou
wrought?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><BR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=auntiestablishment@hotmail.com
href="mailto:auntiestablishment@hotmail.com">Joan Opyr</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020 Moscow</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 13, 2005 1:13
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Atlanta Murders
& Music</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Mark Seman writes:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"If your were to take it in the simplest of general terms, he talks
the<BR>truth. If your were to take it in the simplest of general terms,
and state:<BR>"awareness and intelligence matters in a job like law
enforcement," then you<BR>talk the truth. If your were to take it in the
simplest of general terms,<BR>and state that: "agility and speed matters in a
job like law enforcement,"<BR>then you talk the truth.<BR><BR>One can state
any affair in the simplest of general terms, but when you want<BR>to talk
**about** the truth, it is up to the *speaker* to know if his/her<BR>truth is
the **only** truth, or just one of many, and by what frame of<BR>reference
this is known to him/her, for then truth is a tool and not
merely<BR>words. It is always up to the *listener* to decide whether
that truth is<BR>his/her's as well, and by what frame of reference this is
known to him/her.<BR>To know the *how* of truth, helps prevent being a tool of
someone else's<BR>propoganda."<BR></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>To quote Manuel from <STRONG>Fawlty Towers</STRONG>, "Que?" </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Were you writing this late at night, Mark? Were you tired?
Distracted? Listening to Pink Floyd's <STRONG>Dark Side of the
Moon</STRONG>? I taught composition and rhetoric for many
years and am still unable to discern a coherent thesis, argument, or
conclusion in any of the above. Doug Wilson states, flat-out, that the
reason the Atlanta felon overpowered his guard and escaped was because said
guard was a woman. End of story. He blames the guard's
gender -- and society's failure to recognize that all women everywhere are
unsuited for law enforcement, military service, and other such "manly"
pursuits -- for the killing spree that followed. Doug's argument,
such as it is, has already been well-answered. The judge had chosen to
turn off the courthouse's alarm system. The prisoner and guard were
alone together in the courthouse elevator. Important protocols for
prisoner transfer were ignored and/or dismissed. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Here's a question for Doug -- is it not possible
that our enormous, strapping Atlanta murderer might just as easily
have over-powered even a "Man of Chest" like Doug? Would the outcome
have been any different if a doughnut-addicted, cigar-smoking,
couch-potato male guard had been assigned this duty instead? The
guard in this case wasn't over-powered because she lacked a penis; she was
over-powered because she was on her own, the alarm system was off, and the
prisoner had a plan. This tragedy could have happened just as easily to
Barney Fife as to Thelma Lou. It's not about gender; it's
about training and ability and protocol. (What would a male guard have
done differently? Whipped out his willie and may the biggest organ
win? Please.)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>BTW, if Doug had ever met any of the female guards at the Wake
County Courthouse in my hometown of Raleigh, he'd button his lip pronto.
They're all about six feet tall and five feet wide and look as if they were
carved off the side of a cliff. They are far more
physically imposing than any of the denizens of Christ Church, Credenda
Agenda, or the New St. Andrews -- at least the ones that I've seen
walking the streets of Moscow. Of course, perhaps they have a Mungo
chained up in the attic of Anselm House, where they read him the story of
the Maccabees and feed him raw meat, but somehow I doubt it. That would
be more Mel Brooks than G. K. Chesterton.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>PS: Has Doug never heard of the martial arts? It's not the
size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the
dog. I recall meeting a five-foot nothing woman in Durham who had fought
off a six-foot assailant in a parking garage by kicking him repeatedly in the
head until she "heard something crack." Nothing like a black belt in
karate (or a loaded .44) to put paid to the limitations of sexual
dimorphism. </DIV><BR clear=all>
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