<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> Fear in what sense? 1. Because as the giver of life, woman also gives death (symbolically) -- the child buries the father. 2. Because in their dealings with women, men must play by a whole different set of rules. In this new game, strength doesn't matter, bravado doesn't matter, nothing "matters" in the same way as with men. Control, especially doesn't matter. And boundaries are completely different. This can be scary. Joanna Alex wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid20060527050019.93608.qmail@web51305.mail.yahoo.com"> <pre wrap="">joanna wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I have always thought that men's oppression of women stems from 1) their fear of women and 2) the more general principle of ownership of the earth. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Fear in what sense? -Alex __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mail.yahoo.com">http://mail.yahoo.com</a> ___________________________________ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>