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From: gadfly@ihlpa.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: Re: Feminists
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Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 16:47:53 EDT
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>> I hope people these days realize that it's entirely possible to
>> be a feminist without protesting everything.  

Possible, but what with the way modern capitalism and patriarchy
are intertwined, it's difficult.
 
>> I mean in the 70's everyone was more radical and it gave non-feminists
>> a bad taste in their mouths (so to speak).  Some feminists just
>> haven't learned that screaming your views at some people don't make
>> them listen--if anything they block their ears completely.

Well, they can take their bad taste out of their mouths and stick
it in their ears.  Whoever came up with the notion of feminism as
some sort of bel canto operatic style?  All the feminists I know
are soft-spoken, patient and articulate.  But then, this is true of
most oppressed idealists.

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