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From: dgross@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Dave Gross)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: what feminism has done FOR men
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Date: 16 Nov 90 02:41:32 GMT
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I agree.  The feminist movement has done a great deal to help men.
Women were the first to stand up and point out the useless and
cumbersome gender roles that are constricting all of us.  The
feminists of the 60s & early 70s in fact were unashamed in their
advocation of the liberation of women AND men.

I think men owe a great debt to feminism for showing us that sex roles
aren't written in stone -- that they can be challenged.

When I criticize feminism today, I do so in the context of great
respect for what the feminist movement has advanced.  My complaint
with today's feminist movement is that, IMHO, it has retreated from
the moral high ground of advocating gender equality and justice and
has become essentially a lobby for women.

-- 
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- dgross@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
       "In the mommy track women are just finding out what men have known
        all along about the high cost of being good parents."
				-- Donna Schaper & Warren Goldstein