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From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian)
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Subject: Re: the politics of skirts
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 23:36:18 EDT
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Subject: the politics of skirts

In article <1246@mtgzz.UUCP> seb@mtgzz.UUCP (s.e.badian) writes:
>>	Men have no interest in changing the standards of femininity
>>because they have nothing to lose if the standards remain the same,
>>and stand to lose security and possibly power if they do change. But
>>if they wanted to, they could bring about change. 
  
>     This is the kind of negative, sexist, stereotyping, simplistic,
> overgeneralized, nearsighted rhetoric that turns men off feminism.
> --Jamie.

I think you have a much better grasp on feminism (There has to be a better
word for it) than many women who consider themselves liberated feminists.
They see feminism as a war with men in general on one side and women in
general on the other. Undeniably, they have a pain but somehow that pain makes
them too blind to see the pain of others.
I enjoyed your article.
   
   Farzin
     
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