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Opinion
With Thanks to Feminist Linemen Who Restored Our
Power
By
Atty. J. Edward Pawlick
March 12, 2001
We’d
like to thank all the feminist linemen who braved the ice and
snow to restore electricity to our homes during the blizzard last
week.
What
? ? ?
You
haven’t seen feminists climbing those slippery poles to mess with
dangerous, ice-coated wires?
You
must not be watching!
We
were told thirty years ago by Archie Bunker’s wife that women
are just the same as men. Anyone who disagrees is a “male chauvinist
pig.” They can do anything a man can.
But
come to think of it -- we don’t see feminists out there driving
garbage trucks, climbing poles or doing anything else that’s dirty
or dangerous, do you?
Hmm
...
You’re
right. Even ultra-feminist Wellesley College calls for the “superintendent”
when they need an electrician, plumber, carpenter or anyone else
who makes things work. I wonder why they don’t give some of that
work to their “sisters?” Could it be that the “sisters” are not
capable of doing it?
Might
this mean that feminists are incapable of taking care of themselves?
? ?
Do
they actually need men ? ? ?
That
is a particularly frightening thought.
Does
this even threaten their propaganda about the “glass ceiling?”
Will it help strong and capable women like those at the Independent
Women’s Forum, the counter-revolutionaries who say
that “systematic discrimination against women in the workplace
has essentially been eradicated in the United States.” They report,
“Individual men and women with the same education and experience
enjoy equal standing and equal opportunity in the working world.”
This
is serious stuff. Chief Feminist Margaret Marshall of the SJC
is going to have to wrestle with this problem. Maybe she’ll even
call her husband at the New York Times and have him alert their
subsidiary at the Boston Globe.
Marshall
had better appoint a committee to answer these important questions.
Meanwhile,
if you wish to see the dangerous, anti-feminist material that
is being written these days, you can find it at the independent
women at www.iwf.org.
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