On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:56:01 -0600, toto 
wrote:

>I don't think that any *quota* should be set.  OTOH, I think that it
>is very difficult to keep the people who are accepting candidates
>from knowing the gender or race of the candidate.  Until some means
>to do this can be devised and until the biases fall away due to new
>people in positions of power who have been formed in a less biased
>culture, we will need some means of equalizing the playing field that
>may be somewhat unfair to *some* men.

Garbage. You're saying that because you suspect some people may be
guilty of sexism--in which case they should be liable for punishment
if applicable--you advocate large-scale, institutionalized sexism.

In other words, because some people rob banks, the right thing isn't
to punish them, but rather to rob all the banks first so there'll be
no money to steal in them.



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