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From: gcf@mydog.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Is there a definition of Feminism?
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Date: 10 Oct 90 20:18:47 GMT
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>judy@altair.la.locus.com (Judy Leedom Tyrer):
>>
>>feminism (n) - the belief that women and men should be allowed equal
>>        opportunities within society and that these opportunities should
>>        not be based on social prejudices based upon sexual stereotypes.

In article <86828@aerospace.AERO.ORG> gcf@mydog.UUCP:
>The problem with this sort of definition is that it covers only
>part of feminism. ...

marla@Eng.Sun.COM (Marla Parker):
>This "part" of the definition seems to be the only common idea
>that everyone includes in their definition of feminism.

I don't think this is so.  Antagonists of feminism, whose
writings are probably available at this very moment in other
newsgroups, often assert that feminism is nothing but a program 
to get special privileges for women.  

But even if it were so, so what?  Are least-common-denominator or
most-common-intersection definitions necessarily the best ones?
Or is that not what is being implied?
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