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From: geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: How feminism has failed me
Message-ID: <1989Nov21.225322.25204@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 89 05:19:48 GMT
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Sender: tittle@ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle)
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Liz, you've said here things that have needed to be said for a long
time, especially in this forum.  Feminism, like any ism, can become a
tyrany applied to stifle the individual when it starts to specify how
we must live or be ostracized.  I've seen a lot of women who have been
pretty unhappy trying to live up to other people's notions of the
feminist ideal.  In the same way men who don't fit the macho mold can
be made to be unhappy.  I'd like to see a society where everyone can
choose their own way without constraints put on them by other people
(as long as they don't violate the rights of others of course).  Then
we'll all be liberated.  Do what you want and hang them if they don't
approve.