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Society{at}feminism.is.invalid says...
>
> "Mark Borgerson"  claims in message
> news:MPG.1c7290ff7199e8919896cc{at}news.comcast.giganews.com...
> >
> > Society{at}feminism.is.invalid patiently explained...
> >>
> >> "whyzard"  wrote in message
> >> news:1107820919.875752.114490{at}f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> >> >
> >> > In America, the women got the oppurtunity
> >> > to leave home when all the men left
> >>
> >> Correction: WERE SENT
> >>
> >> > for war and factory jobs offers were
> >> > for the taking.
> >>
> >> Should'a sent the wimmins into battle instead,
> >> izzat what yer arguin' for whyzard?
> >>
> >> Oh and don't forget the fact that even with all
> >> the enticements of gov't sponsored workplace
> >> child care etc. of the WWII era US efforts
> >> to recruit women into the workplace, the
> >> average "Rosie the Riveter" stayed on the job
> >> for no more than 3 months.  Then she bailed
> >> out and went back to housewifery and full-time
> >> mothering.  So, you can't use the USA's WWII
> >> experience as feminist fodder -- well, not
> >> without doing the usual feminist pre-processing
> >> of Reality Distortion (tm) of course.
> >
> > Actually, most US women during WWII never
> > left the home: [...]
>
> Then I am even better supported in my criticism
> of whyzard and that "you (whyzard) can't use the
> USA's WWII experience as feminist fodder --
> well, not without doing the usual feminist pre-
> processing of Reality Distortion (tm) of course.

The reality of the homeland experience during WWII
is quite at odds with the portrayal in the movies.
That does nothing to diminish the sacrifices of the
men (and a few women) who volunteered for or were
conscripted into the US military in WWII.
>
> Thanks for adding more evidence to the already
> swollen heaps and mounds of evidence in support
> of my sig, Borgerson.


You're welcome.    Data is data, and truth is
truth.  How you apply them to your beliefs
(and sig) is up to you.

Mark Borgerson



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