Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ora!ora!daemon From: gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Girls, girls, girls Message-ID: <653402616@lear.cs.duke.edu> Date: 15 Sep 90 12:43:37 GMT References: <9009122207.AA10780@houston.cs.columbia.edu> Sender: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) Organization: Nefolet shel nemushot Lines: 14 Approved: ambar@ora.com In article <9009122207.AA10780@houston.cs.columbia.edu> (Travis Lee Winfrey) writes: >Although you apparently feel feminist activists are solely concerned with >"women's issues," perhaps you should not be so sanguine about a system that >gives men gender roles that cannot be sustained without an early death from >"natural causes," e.g., higher rates of violent death, alcoholism, heart >disease, among other things. Don't be so quick to defend a system that is >killing you and your male friends and relatives. If to judge by what the feminist movement has done in the last 15 years, then it is pretty obvious that a feminist-dominated system will be even more oppressive toward men. It will just find kinder gentler ways to blame the men in their own oppression.