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From: szady@athena.mit.edu (Does it really matter?)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: womyn-only space vs. men-only space? (was Re: rumor or truth--lesbian relationships)
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Date: 31 Oct 90 18:50:09 GMT
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I have a question.....

Why can lesbians focus their energy on womyn and ignore men, and it is ok, 
but when gay men focus their energy on men and ignore womyn they are sexist?

Why are womyn only events such as Michigan perfectly all right (i *DO* support
womyn-space) but men-only events such as sharpening the stone (a radical 
faeries gathering) sexist and exclusionary?

It just seems to me at times that there is much hypocrisy within (some
factions of) the feminist movement.  I consider myself to be fairly radically 
anti-sexist..i am trying to learn here.

drew

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Drew Lewis                   szady@athena.mit.edu
Queers Fight BACK!
I am not for Lesbigay civil rights...I am for Queer Liberation