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- From: leighann@rocky.sybase.com (Leigh Ann Hussey)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Reconciling BDSM and Pagan Beliefs
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:27:08 GMT
- References: <1d4io1INN10k@morrow.stanford.edu> <1992Nov6.223542.24944@u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov6.223542.24944@u.washington.edu>, mkkuhner@phylo.genetics.washington.edu (Mary K. Kuhner) writes:
- |>
- |> We run a big risk in reacting to oppression of becoming oppressors, or
- |> self-oppresssors, ourselves. Standards of beauty have been used to hurt
- |> women; there's a temptation to reject female beauty and to harass those
- |> who are concerned or appreciative of it. White supremacy has been used
- |> to hurt people of other races; there's a temptation to say that no white
- |> person should ever feel pride or pleasure in his/her race or culture.
- |> But this is just replacing one oppression with another; it's no closer
- |> to freedom.
- |>
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- Amen. This is the clearest, most concise distillation of this belief
- (which I share) that I have ever seen; especially the last two lines.
- It's not the "matri" or the "patri" I have the problem with -- it's the
- "archy"!
-
- B*B
- - Leigh Ann
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