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From: sarahg@ronin.css.itd.umich.edu (Sarah Gray)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Clothing
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Date: 8 May 91 01:24:05 GMT
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Keywords:In article <1991Apr27.120803.29765@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, khy@deimos.caltech.EDU (Antoine Rashad) writes:

|> What ever happened to the issue of clothing?  In the 70's no
|> self-respecting feminist would be caught dead wearing a dress or a
|> skirt, but these days lots of self-proclaimed feminists wear them all
|> the time.  Is protesting distinct clothing for men and women off the
|> feminist agenda?  Or do radical feminists still wear pants
|> exclusively?  Do radical feminists look down on feminine-looking women
|> who wear dresses and stockings?

       Defining who is a radical feminist is obviously a whole other
topic, but as someone who is definitely a feminist, I do not feel
constricted to wearing pants or to wearing skirts.  In terms of
distinct clothing for men and for women, clearly men are lagging
behind in that they feel constricted to only wearing pants in America.
      I like having the choice, and it varies by the season.

|> Myself, I'm not complaining, because I never liked women in pants and
|> the fact that feminists dressed so badly turned me off feminism.  It
|> seems to me that after they softened up on the clothing issue,
|> feminists got more recruits.  What are the opinions on this issue
|> these days?

    You never liked women in pants?  And you were turned off to
feminism by something as petty as that?