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From: celeste@ssc-bee.UUCP (Celeste A Strahl)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: the politics of skirts
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 19:20:48 EDT
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> In article <1246@mtgzz.UUCP> seb@mtgzz.UUCP (s.e.badian) writes:
> >>	Men have no interest in changing the standards of femininity ...
>   
> >     This is the kind of negative, sexist, stereotyping, simplistic,
> > overgeneralized, nearsighted rhetoric that turns men off feminism.
> > --Jamie.
> 
> They (women) see feminism as a war with men on one side and women 
> on the other. Undeniably, they have a pain but somehow that pain makes
> them too blind to see the pain of others.
>  --Farzin
>      
Not all women who consider themselves 'liberated feminists' see feminism
as a war with men.  I (a woman) clearly see the pain of a sexist society
on both men and women.  I think Jamie's comment could apply to your
generalization as well.