A 'Courts do it Better!

I was very pleased to read the replies to my letter on "feminism" from Tina and Mary. A point on both replies - I am not trying to argue that women have not any special threat, statistics make that meaningless, what I was trying to argue is that it is not a complete dialectic and therefore any political argument along those lines must be weakened. I don't think I made this point very clearly.

While I'm on the subject of "feminism" I have one or two new bitches to cast in that direction. Who is the moron responsible for that poster that reads "Men's wars, Women pay"? You don't have to have a D.Lit to read in the implication that a) men don't suffer in war time and b) women are not part of the social upheaval that brings about a declaration of war. What a pile of total garbage! Women have participated in virtually every war ever lought and not just as weeping mothers or innocent rape victims, but as active logistic and moral support to their men and in recent times as lighting soldiers. Try telling any woman in the middle of the Blitz that it's a man's war, because, let's face it, war is a time of spiritual turmoil for everyone. Another point, the men that have begun wars (and I can't deny that men haven't), declared them not as men but as people, either as a separate social class who don't care or as people who do care but can see no alternative. What I'd like to know is who is paying for this flagrant stupidity because I don't see why students should foot the bill for people incapable of seeing beyond their own sexist paranoia.

One more point. The problem with contemporary "feminism" is that it got as fat as seeing women are not the same (mentally or physically) as men but then turned back into the intellectual sludge and concluded that men were therefore incapable of appreciating that difference positively so therefore there must be dialectic opposition.

Finally back to you Stephen. How come there's never anything thought provoking in Salient apart from the letters and the crossword? All we evei get is news, and news is supposed to be new and most of Salient's news is not new to those who are concerned anyway. It seems that coverage has been stretched as far as possible and most of what is covered has already been covered by INL. Surely Salient is a paper lot students by students, and not fot students by PSA, NZUSA or, recently, the A'Courts.