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From: hnewstrom@x102a.harris-atd.com (Harvey Newstrom)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Feminism in the Craft
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Date: 10 Nov 89 18:48:22 GMT
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In article <7381@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> bloch%mandrill@ucsd.edu (Steve Bloch) writes:
 >hnewstrom@x102a.harris-atd.com (Harvey Newstrom) writes:
 >>[Adler] also says that in her search for covens to research, she found all-female
 >>covens, mixed covens, and gay-male covens, but has never found nor hear of an
 >>all-straight-male coven.  
 >>
 >>Although I don't like to believe that Wicca is female-only, I do see it as not
 >>appealing to most traditional straight males.
 >
 >What does "traditional" mean here?  [....]
 >

I meant "typical" straight male who believes that males are superior.

[Note that the quotation marks imply that Harvey does not think this is
really the norm.  Otherwise, I would have asked for a rewrite of this
sentence.                                                           - MHN]
 
 >Now, I don't see any a priori reason Wicca should appeal more to gay
 >men than to straight men, or more to women than to men, except that
 >straight men have something "better": powerful, established religions
 >and social structures that tell them they're wonderful.  [....]

Bingo.  Most religions teach that men are superior to women.  To embrace
Wicca, a man would have to admit that women are equal.  He also would have to
admit that being "effeminate" is not inferior to being "masculine".

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Harvey Newstrom   (hnewstrom@x102a.harris-atd.com)   (uunet!x102a!hnewstrom)