Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ora!daemon From: gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: _FEAR_ and feminism Message-ID: <662842411@lear.cs.duke.edu> Date: 2 Jan 91 18:53:32 GMT References: <8eLmu1w163w@halcyon.uucp> <1990Dec29.204059.10264@uunet!unhd> Sender: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) Organization: The Piranha Club Lines: 17 Approved: ambar@ora.com In article smd@lsuc.on.ca (Sean Doran) writes: >Feminism, you see, is a terribly amorphous concept, but at its core is >one central philosophy: every woman and every man should be given equal >treatment in society, in the workplace, in the home, and under the law. Nice definition for a movement that *supports* different treatment of people by their sex (have you ever heard about "Affirmative Action"?), fights against men only schools and supports women-only schools... It is quite possible that most feminists have really wanted equal rights, but when they were offered a "preferred treatment" they had not the brain and/or integrity to say "no", and now they are stuck with what they choose, but the bottom line is that: 1) That's what they *choose*. 2) They have no intention to change their choice.