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From: mydog!gcf@hombre.masa.com
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Subject: Re: Is there a definition of Feminism?
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Date: 18 Oct 90 02:32:24 GMT
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stricher@masig3.ocean.fsu.edu ("Char Aznabul") quotes me as
follows:
 
| In article <88257@aerospace.AERO.ORG> gcf@mydog.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes:
| > 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? 

and then goes on:

| If that's what their stated goal was, yer right. But, they state
| they are out for equality and fairness for EVERYONE. That's the
| 'so what'.

This is a misquotation.  In the quoted article, "it" in the phrase
"but even if it were so" did not refer to the quoted paragraph but to
the assertion that the movement for equal rights was common to all
forms of feminism.

I'm not sure what the author is objecting to here, if anything.  Maybe
if he read the articles again, he could clarify?  This time quoting
them as they are, if at all.

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Gordon Fitch  |  uunet!hombre!mydog!gcf