RE: YOUR Chance to Support Equal Rights in Moscow

["Melynda Huskey" <mghuskey@hotmail.com>]

Debbie Grey writes:

>Whether you agree with the ordinance is one thing, acting as if this were
>some clandestine decision passed down from some remote elected figures
>with their own interests in mind and passed through with no input and no
>way TO communicate input then I would see a problem with the process.
Didn't the Council introduce a newly-worded version of the ordinance and 
then refuse to take any public testimony on it before voting?  And wasn't 
the group in attendance that night primarily composed of people opposed to 
the ordinance (unlike the previous meeting, which featured a well-organized 
group of pro-ordinance folks who were allowed to testify at length about how 
many children each of them had and how those children would be affected by 
the sight of breasts)?

Debbie Grey continues:

And
>to me, I've not heard so much self-victimization by women in a long time.
>I think it's easier for people to jump on the victim wagon then approach
>this logically and realistically. All this noise about how this is
>basically men keeping all women down and making them feel nasty is pure
>emotional blackmail. But I guess you need some rallying cry.

How sad that you see women organizing against a discriminatory law as 
"self-victimization."  My definition of self-victimization would include 
directing sexist remarks at other women, accusing them of "emotional 
blackmail" and lacking the ability to think "logically and realistically" 
because they disagree with you.

Of course your first loyalty is with law enforcement, given Phil's job, and 
it must be frustrating to have family members and friends blamed and 
criticized for something that is really the fault of the City Council.  But 
dismissing everyone who disagrees with you as a crybaby or a moron is 
counterproductive.  Where is the logic or the realism in allowing male fire 
fighters to strip down for a carwash after drafting a law to prevent women 
from doing the same thing?

Melynda Huskey

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