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- From: panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden)
- Subject: Re: Roy's "consenting" slave
- Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 22:12:07 EST
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- laura@plts.uucp (Laura Arnold) writes:
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- > You have no right to demand that she make the decision that you feel most
- > comfortable with. I resent your using feminism as an excuse to control
- > Kerry's choices. Feminism is much broader than you are presenting it. By
- > insisting that Kerry does not have the ability to concent, you are
- > disempowering her in the same way that the patriarchy has disempowered women
- > for centuries. Feminism is about recognizing womyn's individuality and
- > personal power, not about creating a mass of women who think exactly the way
-
- I just wanted to see here that I agree with Laura's principle: that
- feminism means having the power to choose, including the power to make
- wrong choices; it means allowing diversity in every direction. (It also
- means taking responsibility for one's choices, which is necessary in any
- case.)
-
- Namaste,
- Elizabeth
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