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From: falk%peregrine@Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Are feminists Lesbians
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Date: 17 Sep 90 16:18:49 GMT
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In article <6908.26ee9694@jetson.uh.edu> elee628@jetson.uh.edu writes:
>Is it true that majority of the hardcore feminists are lesbians?
>
>I would like to make it clear that this question should not be taken
>as a discriminatory remark against any group of people. What I want is
>the truth about a myth that exists among my group of friends.

I think it's regional.  When I lived in upstate N.Y. and was on the
periphery of the movement, I'd say it was about 2/3 lesbian.  A friend
of mine once went to the local women's center, with the intent of
checking it out and maybe joining, and two women tried to pick her up
in half an hour.  It completely turned her off of feminism.  My SO at
the time was the local N.O.W. chapter president, and we had to keep our
relationship quiet because it would hurt her politcally if it found out
she was in a relationship with a man.

In other places, I don't think there's such a concentration of gay
women.  Your mileage may vary.

I'm talking about the inner circle hard-core feminists of course.  I
think in general, most of the women who call themselves feminists are
pretty much regular people and have the same gay component as the
general population.


		-ed falk, sun microsystems
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