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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Is feminism sexism by females?
Message-ID: <2138@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 10:30:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: mnetor.2138
Posted: Wed Sep 11 10:30:41 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Sep-85 12:14:48 EDT
References: <415@mhuxr.UUCP> <501@tymix.UUCP> <428@mhuxr.UUCP>
Reply-To: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Summary: 

In article <428@mhuxr.UUCP> mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) writes:
>I am aware that the advertising or any other industry is more interested
>in profits than in social conscience, but ads that are offensive to women
>(you know, the ones that show women fulfilled by spending a day cleaning
>the oven) have been (rightfully) attacked as reinforcing sexist attitudes
>by feminist (and mainstream) writers. Now that we have sexist ads directed
>at men, the silence is deafening. That is what I would like to discuss.
>
>Marcel Simon

Well, these ads are not new.  Remember the one about the guy getting sand
kicked in his face? 
I don't think that the "silence" is in indication of some dark plot the
reverse roles, probably simply that feminist women who complain about
sexist stuff against women simply don't care as much about sexist stuff
about men or have a hard time recognising it since it is not against
themselves.  Maybe they don't think it is their business.  After all
most of these ads are writen by men against other men, so they figure
that if men cared enough, they would object, just like women got organised
to object against sexism for women.
-- 
Sophie Quigley
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