From can.politics Thu Sep 17 15:19:24 1992 Newsgroups: can.politics Path: utcsri!torn!cunews!nrcnet0!bnrgate!bcrka451!cadnews From: seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson) Subject: Re: sex and the senate Message-ID: <1992Sep16.130749.3240@bcrka451.bnr.ca> Sender: 5E00 Corkstown News Server Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada References: <1992Sep13.014920.25288@bcrka451.bnr.ca> <1992Sep13.144344.4401@bcrka451.bnr.ca> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 13:07:49 GMT I would like to know why a woman necessarily represents me better than a man does, simply by sharing gender. I think that this assumption perpetuates the idea that there are "women's issues" and "issues". If men and women are really that different, maybe we should have separate parallel governments with different political systems & laws. If not, maybe we can work together to make "women's issues" everybody's concern, and just have "issues". -- Seanna Watson Bell-Northern Research, (seanna@bnr.ca) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Opinions, what opinions? Oh *these* opinions. | It's hard to seize the No, they're not BNR's, they're mine. | day when you must first I knew I'd left them somewhere. | grapple with the morning.