Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero!campus.swarthmore.edu!sdk91 From: sdk91@campus.swarthmore.edu Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: "Off Our Backs" magazine cover Message-ID: Date: 30 May 90 18:44:14 GMT Sender: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Organization: Swarthmore College Lines: 26 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org In article <265df9d5.1abd@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>, dgross@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Dave Gross) writes... > >As evidence of the androcidal rhetoric that the feminist movement >feels free to use, and then deny when convenient Hmm. As far as I can tell, the feminist movement covers an amazingly broad and diverse range of beliefs. I can't see this generalization as appropriate. Is there a particular organization you're referring to? > I was browsing through my local progressive bookstore this > evening when I reached the magazine section. I pushed aside > a copy of "Motherhood" magazine and found the latest issue > of that oft-mentioned feminist journal "Off Our Backs." > The cover illustration was a brick wall with the following > graffiti: DEAD MEN DON'T RAPE. Well...we couldn't rape anyone if we _were_ dead, could we? I don't know about you, but I can maintain an erection only so long... :) Could someone who's active in the movement respond to his posting? I don't feel, as a man, that's it is quite my place to discuss this issue. --Steve Karpf