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From: uunet!mtxinu!ed@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Ed Gould)
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Date: 2 Aug 90 20:41:19 GMT
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Paul Ciszek, commenting on someone calling their 10-month-old daughter
a feminist:
>For all you know, your daughter may someday become a homemaker just
>to spite you.  Don't call her a feminist until you've had a chance
>to ask her.

Why do you presume that "feminist" and "homemaker" are necessarily
mutually exclusive?  To my mind, feminism does not object to one
becoming a homemaker, it objects to the notion that a woman is (or
might be or would be) expected or pressured to become a homemaker.
That pressure is real, whether it be subtle, societal expectation
or conditioning, or explicit.

-- 
Ed Gould                    mt Xinu, 2560 Ninth St., Berkeley, CA  94710  USA
ed@mtxinu.COM		    +1 415 644 0146

"I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady.  I'll fight them as an engineer."