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From: farmerl@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu (lisa ann farmer)
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Subject: Re: Why I Am Not a Feminist
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Date: 22 Apr 91 20:57:35 GMT
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Reading this thread and having dealt with this issue in some depth I see an
attitude that does not please me.  All these people criticize the works of 
feminists - especially if they are at all tinged with "man-hating".  Has anyone
heard of process?  Do people really think that before someone can write a book
and have it printed they _must_ know the meaning of life and all those things 
that fall inbetween?  All I need to do is to look back at my journal from two
years ago - I understand where I was but most of the time I have grown to look
at the same situation differently.  

Women are/were angry.  The literature that has come out of that anger is (o no)
angry too.  I think that women's studies should allow the anger along with the
loving.  Literature needs to be read with its context in mind.  Reading a work
from the 70's is going to have, in most cases, a different focus than that of 
the 90's.  But the process of how  and what makes feminism of today is important
in understanding feminism.  

We all have to remember that those that are supposed to "enlighten" us are also
growing at the same time.  Just because someone is a professor or an author
does not mean they have the "absolute" truth (no one does or should) and the 
most important thing is that we have to accept this of them.
Lisa
farmerl@handel.cs.colostate.edu