>Yoshie is quite right about the pragmatic need for identity politics.
I agree, though I think the name gives it an image problem.
>And Charles...
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> >By the way, women are the majority , not a minority.
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>There is an argument that 'minority' is not about numbers but about a
>position in relation to a privileged norm or standard. But it's one of
>those dark post-structuralist things, so perhaps I should discuss it here.
Do tell...
But didn't Amartya Sen (?) argue that women aren't the majority, and that there are x million "missing" women?
Doug