I have a Ph.D. and I still don't understand what gender means. "Socially/culturally constructed sexual identity"? OK. But that doesn't rhyme with anything. It's got no visceral content whatsoever. It's a mind word.
What is "scab" about what Chuck is saying?
Joanna
Carrol Cox wrote:
>Chuck Grimes wrote:
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>>You want to reach out to the working class? Don't talk about
>>gender. Talk about dicks and pussy.
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>Chuck, this is bullshit, extreme bullshit. You are offending 2/3s of the
>working class in order to make an appeal that won't even work to about
>10% of the working class. Who in the hell makes up this "working class"
>you are talking about?
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>The largest union, I think someone mentioned today, is the NEA. Add the
>AFT. Your working class isn't even close to a really large minority of
>_unionized_ workers. After I wrote a letter to the local paper calling
>the Mitsubishi workers scabs for supporting Mitsubishi against the
>charges of sexual harassment, my wife went to work at the post office
>the next day (she was union president at the time) half expecting to run
>into a lot of static. Half the force went out of their way to tell her
>they liked the letter.
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>If almost anyone but you had written this post I'd unleash my choicest
>vocabulary on it. You are anything but a scab, so why are you using scab
>vocabulary?
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>I appreciate the rage you feel. I've felt it myself. I'm feeling a bit
>of it now. But that kind of rage is the kind that destroyes movements.
>It blunts the intellect.
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>Carrol
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