-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/19/13 10:25 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 6/19/13 8:12 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> On 6/19/13 10:00 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: >>> On 6/19/13 7:56 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >>>> Why do you believe that my opinions are unexamined? I have >>>> been thinking and reading about social, cultural, and >>>> personal change for a very long time. >>> >>> You made an assertion that's at least a little ahistorical, >> >> That depends on which historians you've been reading. > > Peter, it's a fact in the US and Canada that court cases preceded > civil rights protections which preceded social change. This has > been true for racial minorities, women, glbt folk, etc. I expect > that there are historians who'd argue otherwise but allow me to > suggest that if so they are very, very far out of the mainstream. I'm not a great believer in intellectual mainstreams. > It seems to me that without some sort of institutional change it's > likely that for a few cycles nomcoms will try to be "sensitive" to > the question of the underrepresentation of women and then it will > be back to business as usual, because that's the way these things > go. It's unusual for people to voluntarily surrender their > privilege. Thanks for giving me something to think about. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRwd2ZAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pq2wP/3Nigg7SweNe9PClvp57mprg yKouJl0+5LuAzAw0jncVFN6KEuWebsF5cgLeYE1ttbJRCkwlrKDoxphq59MZHW8S wbCtU+ziDfSVWBIwr1IqKggH2bpXGmfR8LNkDpRuOWjSvsXGNnb0BFlW5IF7Z95c 7+5yRHn+u8pKmLaSqxYS3bte6/EESGUL1GEgRbwXiFFszkHe4jNPEPB2yMgYFbJV 4COIfbTAt34lcC0SYrbQ2egL2wcVpiMlGUSFyDWtTszFS5skZHEbj/GgiAzTteIb lEXa4inCHLJ/AJSKY6JgKKn0Oq5qemocJGL2590rYbI8kjoDDxmXwJD5cAUvf9WY SLE8QNgQHO4pt0QoJ0AlWeHj/ZnnUz9tKOG1Va4ZAg05PIDZ65f5nILgwLc6fvHQ wKpj/Fal8zrTBcEarT9lw/ctpTtYLnCbv+MmE6WXO0z0O2cCylTEEfCJICkbfq2Q uID2n88bZdTFWeej1iA6oBlsTeXElOXiRwrp+6KTuZ/ua1N/uOIqbrzuLQXbXQ6J CjqlIMLDbMfyuRQVh9bcr1u1hFPc6QH/ba0Z4m9DlBYC8f0HC7goteLgTQladUTz /wLt4T4scuwWDd34LSRS2lwAB8CIZZTTnlfB0sMODwZCczesJKSTHJmp1+AdVCS0 Lc8jAuOmBQwcomy56keV =oy8+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----