I am acknowledging that water I swim in, Amos. I grew up with history (Christopher Columbus et al) and social studies classes that portrayed America showing the world the way to true civilization and understanding of the scientific world. In the biology context that portrayed males as dominant in most all of the animal world (except for hyenas, but they were considered so nasty that male researchers didn't mind giving them to the females, eh?) The position from which I view this modernist/post-modern discussion is one in which I have had to rethink the foundations that were taught as etched-in-stone in my formative years. I am a feminist product of my times.

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