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- From: goid@zooid.guild.ORG (Will Steeves)
- Subject: Re: my two cents about on
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:38:14 GMT
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- mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik) writes...
- MC> >The point of the healthy variety of separatism is finding out
- MC> >who we are, not in calling men names.
- MC> Yes. One of the problems involved here is historical. That is,
- MC> men-only groups have become suspect because they so frequently
- MC> became power bases from which women were excluded. Women-only
- MC> groups don't have this kind of history to overcome.
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- It's interesting that you would say this, Mara.
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- Perhaps this was true of only men's groups in the past, but with the
- growing power base in the women's movement, it seems that the same
- suspicions can now also be drawn about women-only groups...
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