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From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (aMAZon)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Is feminism sexism by females?
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 16:27:16 EDT
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Marcel 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.
> 

Who do you think should do the shouting?  I only have so much energy
to deal with problems, and while this is a problem, it is not
as high on my list as others.
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