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From: NETOPRWA@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu (Wayne Aiken)
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Subject: The Feminist Majority
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Date: 27 Jun 90 15:04:56 GMT
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Among the many cause organizations that solicit me to join/contribute is one
called The Feminist Majority, headed by an Ellie Smeal.  Does anyone know if
this is a real/legitimate organization?  The name is the same misspelling as
NOW uses, so either this organization got it from NOW or their supplier.

[I don't see any misspelling.  I assume Ellie Smeal knows how to spell her
own name.    I believe the correct name for the organization is, however,
The Fund for a Feminist Majority.                                   -MHN]

This group seems to have a lot of the same goals as NOW, but this one has
much more of a political bent; among the letter I got is a questionnaire.
They gradually go through the demographics, then to membership in other
organizations, political offiliation, and then they ask "Would you support
a Feminist Party?"  Is this a real, effective organization, or is it a front
for some convoluted socio-political group?

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