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- From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard)
- Newsgroups: soc.college,alt.usage.english,alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Herstory
- Message-ID: <85720@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:27:36 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.213634.19440@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- thf2@midway.uchicago.edu (Ted) writes:
- >No one ever said the word
- >"history" was sexist or wants to abolish it. "Herstory" is a play on words
- >and refers to a distinctly different approach to historical interpretation.
-
- I happen to object to the word "herstory" on purely esthetic grounds. It
- ranks right up with PC abominations such as "looksism" and "womyn"
- (plural womien?). It has nothing to do at all with my views on the place
- of women (or wimmin, or womyn) in our society.
-
- >If you're so dead-set on attacking feminism, there's enough out there to
- >address without making up these straw men (or women as the case may be :)
-
- I'm not in the least trying to attack feminism. I'd object equally
- strenuously to someone referring to Andrew as a "himmicaine".
-
- --
- --Andrew Hackard If I spoke for UT, this post
- andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu would make even less sense.
-
- "Hallelujah, Noel, be it Heaven or Hell,
- The Christmas we get we deserve."
-