Re: sexual harassment discussion

From: Cary Brown (CBrown3@vtc.vsc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 18 1999 - 09:24:36 EST


You wrote:
>There's no way that girls can ever get ahead in this sexist world if the
>mothers themselves are perfectly content of being who they are. in reality
everyone avoids the issue because they lack education or guts or
> both...I continue to feel revolted by the indifference I perceive from the
mothers themselves. I know why so many of these girls have so little self
respect and so much lack of self esteem... it really is NO secret...no one
intellectually interested in the subject needs to look for ''deeper''
> sociological reasons. All they need to do is look at the females who are doing
the raising of these children.
>

Yikes!

There is _nothing_ about people's personalities and development
that can be exclusively blamed on, or credited to, their mothers.
Thankfully, the world is much richer, more complex, and deeper
than that!

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Cary Brown
Women in Technology Project 802/728-1510
Vermont Technical College
Randolph Center VT 05061-0500 http://www.vtc.vsc.edu/wit
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