[lit-ideas] Re: How to Draw a Crowd

I take back my 

> I agree we should all expect equal treatment

in favour of

I agree we should all want equal treatment.



--- On Fri, 23/1/09, Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: How to Draw a Crowd
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, 23 January, 2009, 12:41 AM
> I agree we should all expect equal treatment.  But what
> equal treatment means may not be immediately apparent, also,
> perhaps it is not clear to me why you think cultural
> pluralism is anthetical to this (if that is what you think).
>  As for 'voting for the "best candidate"',
> it is a good forty years since a (male) tutor
> ('professor') suggested to me that if women and men
> did that, then, a woman would never be the best candidate.
> 
> Feminists and black movement people and others have, Eric,
> considered the point I think you raise, and have thought the
> matter more complex than you -- I think -- believe.
> 
> As for
> 
> These three guys
> > and gals don't merely think equality is a good
> idea;
> > they expect it. Everyone at the organization expects
> it,
> > from board level all the way up to the mail room, to
> the
> > very pinnacle of the night janitors ... 
> 
> 
> well now, this really does raise the question of what
> equality means.  
> 
> Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
> 
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