Kathryn Aegis wrote:
>
> >From: Michael S. Lorrey <retroman@turbont.net>
> >> I've said it once and I'll say it again. A large number of women do not
> >> regard freedom to be nearly as important as security. They will, by and
> >> large, prefer to trade freedom for greater security and protection. <snip>
> >>>The great erosion in
> >> privacy and individual liberty in this century began after we granted
> >> women the right to vote. To Kathryn and other women on the list who
> >> probably take offense at this, I challenge you to prove me wrong.
>
> I am fresh from a meeting of the Skeptical Society, so I'll stretch out my
> typing fingers here and have a go.
>
>
> Women are not libertarian? Nonsense. Women are on the cutting edge of
> every human rights movement in existence. They fight every day to keep
> their health clinics from being bombed, to keep restrictive contraceptive
> laws off our backs, to open doors in the sciences and technological fields.
> They lobby for increased parental control over schooling and for reduced
> taxes. Every day, women form their own companies, leap onto the Internet,
> trade stocks, take off into the wilderness.
>
> Maybe they don't express it in the form of a particular political doctrine,
> but women apply libertarian ideals in a very practical sense in their own
> lives every day. We have to--for us, just to leave the house is the most
> radical libertarian act of all.