On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 03:54:47PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > Sure, I did that in my last message but deleted it because I didn't want to > go into a lengthy (and sterile) discussion, but here you go. Pray tell me > how you feel these are offensive: I have to agree that none of the ones quoted are offensive. > > Also, you have not acknowledged or denied the rationale for the inclusion > > in the list of "tu mujer me ama" and "el amor de la mujer casada" (they are > > mysoginistic because they continue the trend of "all married women are > > adulteressess because women are duplicitous and treacherous". > I've never seen the trend that you see (that's a strange cliché I've never > heard of before) and I rather not go into that discussion. I wouldn't care > less if the quote said "Smile, your husband loves me" and I would gladly > include both a women and a man oriented quote in these cases. Feel free to > provide a patch. Yeah, this conclusion that these fortunes are misogynistic is bizarre to me. I see a case for considering them offensive, but I don't think that has anything to do with feminism. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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