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From: RA04@Lehigh.UCAR.EDU
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Subject: Re: Feminism's ill effects on men?
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Date: 23 Oct 90 15:56:24 GMT
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Re: dk's two facts (1-men are on avg stronger than women; 2-technology
can compensate for women's lesser strength), I accept without argument,
for I think that women's use of machines can liberate both women and
men.  But the point I was making is that our culture's "man against,"
"conquest of," and similar conceptions are unnecessarily competitive
yet valued, whereas cooperative conceptual models are unnecessarily
devalued as "weak."  The valued and the devalued are by false analogy
connected to notions of "strong / masculine" and "weak / feminine"; in
this context, feminism can encourage world-views in which humans work
within natural systems without trying to dominate or annihilate them.

                                                                  r.a.