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Subject:	Now: Women Was: Libertarian SPAM (Propaganda)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:34:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes: > If the question is meaningless, then why is the Libertarian Party almost > exclusively white male? I'm not meaning that as a personal attack - I just > am curious if you have an opinion as to why. A failing on minorities and > women to understand the Libertarian message? > Bruce Us "women" do understand the message. You think I have time to be active in the Libertarian party? I'm too danged busy fighting all the other stereotypes out there, such as, I'm supposed to be the size of Kate Moss and all the other starving women pictured on magazines, I'm supposed to be some major "career" woman at the same time fighting up the ladder to be CEO of some firm, yet I'm also supposed to be Susie Homemaker a la, that nasty Martha Stewart? I'm supposed to be "soccer mom" and a bazillion other stereotypes I'm fighting every single day just to try and be me! I can't even shop in the hardware store in peace without getting nailed by some male jerk wanting to help a "little lady" like myself, the inference being that a woman wouldn't know a thing about hardware or wood. Let alone all the males that think I shouldn't play with Trains or Lego. And you have the nerve to complain that there aren't more women in the LP? I tell you what. I'll volunteer for the LP starting the day that I don't have to work my butt off at some glass ceilinged job, spend 4 hours commuting each day, and then have some lazy ass man sitting at home expecting me to feed and walk the dogs, feed him, clean up after him, entertain him, hear about "his" day, and then have time and energy left over for "extra activities" (ie: sex), ya, that will be the day I have time to participate in the LP. As far as the LP message goes, I get it just fine. Katie

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		Re: Now: Women Was: Libertarian SPAM (Propaganda)
(...) This is a good example of poor snipping. Let me restore the salient portion to the above (before my name, immediately follwing the rest): "A fear by them that they think they do understand the Libertarian message (it's legit for businesses (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Now: Women Was: Libertarian SPAM (Propaganda)
(...) I think there are many pressures on men too. Modern man does not just go out and to a bit of huntin' and gatherin' - he also has to do all other sorts of other stuff. Both men & women are hounded by media images of what we should (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Now: Women Was: Libertarian SPAM (Propaganda)
<Important message: Please bear in mind that my questions are meant to be rhetorical, and not attacking. I am a white male, but I am not about keeping the woman down. Thank You.> (...) You are? Says who? Who will refuse to speak to you if you're (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) South Coast Liesure Club? Sunny California Libertarian Clique? Advanced Ideas Mechanics? Accuracy in Media? Asian Internet Marketing? I don't speak initial. Well, solved the second with my Apache buddy literally walking by as I was typing (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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