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From: baranski@meridn.enet.dec.com (Jim Baranski)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Woman/Man Space
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Date: 14 Jan 91 20:25:02 GMT
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In article <TZ6VZ9S@cs.swarthmore.edu>, sdk91@campus.swarthmore.edu writes...

"I get tired of folks who claim that women-only groups are
_necessarily_ wrong.  Tell me. Would you take a bunch of emotionally
vulnerable men who are survivors of abuse by their mothers and fathers
and hold an open meeting to work through pain, grief, and trauma while
they are in the _presence of their abusers_?!?"

There is a difference between excluding one person with reason and
excluding everyone that shares a characteristic with that one person.

That being said, there are a few and far between cases were controlled
groups are helpful.  Your example borders on such, but the majority of
exclusionary groups are far from your example.

Jim Baranski