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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:06:44 EST
- From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <92357.110706SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Understanding
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- If I may follow up Stella's nifty posting with a little tiny instance of
- tactical advice; the word 'feminist' tends to make most men defensive.
- Why this should be so is a long essay, but - talk about fairness and
- pain - most folks is for fairness and against pain - rather than 'feminism',
- if you don't want the guy to turtle.
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- There's a certain element of the male experience of feminist philosphy
- that goes 'this is going to tell me I'm deficent in painful detail - ack!';
- I, for one, am very resitant to being told I'm any more deficent than
- the next person over. Telling me I'm doing something that you find
- hurtful is going to get my attention, though.
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- All of the above being very solidly in the context of 'if it interests
- you to try, it might help..'.
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- Graydon
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