Re: [media] Spam Punishment Doesn't Fit the Crime

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But it is a small percentage,
indeed, when compared with the female population which relies on the
largesse of boyfriends, husbands, ex-husbands, fathers and/or the
government . . .

[These hidden, obfuscated transactions -- the husband who finances the
start-up of the wife's boutique business, the fat alimony settlement
which serves the same purpose, the father who co-signs his daughter's
car loan or mortgage, who pays all or part of the down-payment -- compel
self-deluding women to believe that they are self-reliant feminists]

. . . and of that small percentage a still smaller percentage of the
female population is capable of generating surplus wealth -- that is,
creating employment, creating excess capital which provides not only for
themselves but for others. That still smaller percentage exists in
numbers sufficient only to make possible banner headlines and full
colour photo-spreads of anecdotal success stories in Cosmo and People
magazines: anecdotal success stories which are evasive of a central
reality: that for every much-celebrated, much-heralded female success
story in a given profession, discipline, art or business, there are
hundreds -- if not thousands -- of male success stories in that same
profession, discipline, art or business which are unheralded and