Subject: Re: [lpny_manhattan] Re: Fwd: Today is the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:25:29 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:02:38 -0000, Nicolas Leobold wrote: >=A0Bob, I like the quote you post below and it's very true. >=A0Isn't the poor condition of millions of women overseas a= measure of >=A0how badly their men are treating them. First , I think it eurocentric to presume that men treat their= mothers and sisters and mates "overseas" worse than we do here . I= believe the greater average lifespan women is pretty universal since= the decline in birth mortality brought about by the mainly male= created medical advances of the 20th century . Second , the male death rate is partially an indication of how= intensely we battle each other to win the choicest females and feather the= nests . I totally fail to understand how some women can get in more of= an uproar about some societies' female circumcision than male circumcision= . I do not believe that there is any case where the sexes each do= their own circumcisions . This righteous western indignation seem= particularly ludicrous in this age of euro ear and nose and brow and tongue= and nipple and penis and clit piercing and studding . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Computing Environment : =A0http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ A WTC vision : http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ Liberty : http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm Restore our Right to Relax : =A0http://ny.lp.org/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?Against_the_Smoking_Ban =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02003/11/26 10:00:15 AM