Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero!remus.rutgers.edu From: clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Who is on this newsgroup? Message-ID: Date: 12 Aug 90 11:15:03 GMT References: <1990Jul30.160819.1101@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <90220.012125IO81409@MAINE.BITNET> Sender: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 32 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Status: R In article <90220.012125IO81409@MAINE.BITNET>, IO81409%MAINE.BITNET@evans.ucar.EDU writes: > and just WHAT is wrong with being a lesbian, i would like to know? even > a militant one??? There's nothing wrong with lesbians or militant lesbians; prolife lesbian feminist pagans are the one that you have to watch out for. What was said was: | Of course they are not as long as the definition of "feminist" is "a | person concerned with the rights of women" and not "Militant | man-hating socialist lesbians advocating special sex-based | privileges". I fail to see how one could take offense at the above statement, or conclude from it that the author doesn't like lesbians. He was merely pointing out that feminism, whatever that is, should be concerned with all women and not just a particular subset of them. > i have known ten year old feminists. i grew up with one, as a matter of > fact. everything a child learns, they learn from parental or societal > conditioning, so stop making it sound so sinister. at least children who > are taught to be feminists early have a better shot at growing up to be > decent human beings. am i saying therefore, that nonfeminists are not > decent human beings? well, baldly, yes. nonfeminist and decent human > being are mutually exclusive. I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist; I don't concern myself with only a subset of humanity but all of it. Does this make me a bad person? -Chris