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From: hp-sdd!hp-sdd.hp.com!andrea@ucsd.EDU (Andrea K. Frankel)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: can a human be feminist?
Summary: angels_on_the_head_of_a_pin
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Date: 8 Jun 89 02:15:22 GMT
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I have held off commenting on the "what is feminism" and "can a male be
a feminist" because I do not see what is to be gained by setting up a
definition.

I propose invoking William James' nonsense filter: ask yourself what
difference it will make to you one way or the other - how will it change
what you say and do, how you relate to others, how you live your life?

If it won't make any difference, it isn't worth arguing about.

If it *will* make a difference, what difference would that be?  And
why?

Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
	"wake now!  Discover that you are the song that the morning brings..."
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