APOLOGY: Re: Responsibility for children

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Sep 20 2000 - 18:00:13 MDT


At 02:56 AM 20/09/00 -0700, samantha politely corrected my error:

>> At 10:33 PM 18/09/00 -0700, samantha wrote:

>> > As a human who happens to reside in female form, I am most interested in
>> > your personal pov on forced-pregnancy and abortion.

>I did not write the line at the top of your post. Misattribution.

I'm very sorry for this mistake, and apologise both to samantha and to the
woman who actually sent the original post. I see now that was from a post
by ankara - I confused the two names because they both use a small-case
letter at the start (human brains are fallible that way).

>why on earth would you assume I have no understanding
>of female psychology and sensibilities just on the basis of having xy
>chormosomes?

I certainly don't assume that. I would hope that I, too, share at least
some small part of that understanding. That's not what I was talking about,
however.

Damien Broderick



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