[lbo-talk] Matriarchy/Patriarchy

[B.]

Gar, the point I was making, if you'd read the rest of
my email, was that anything humans do, from rape and
genocide, to eating a vegetarian diet and having gay
sex [which I also mentioned], shows that humans must
have some hardwired capacity for it. Your email was
attacking a position I didn't voice. You lifted one
quote out of context and made a funny, basically
attacking a strawman.

In other words, nothing in my post disagreed with what
you say. In fact, my post was a polemic against folks
who use the pharse "such and such is natural" to
justify oppressive policy -- my point was anything
humans can do, by virtue of their doing it, is
"natural."

-B.

Gar Lipow wrote:

"The point being distracted from here, that  my
'laundry list' was  making, is that the word
"hardwired" in meaningless combined with the  world
"capacity". Anything a human being can do without
surgical or chemical alteration is  a "Hardwired capacity'"