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- From: mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik)
- Newsgroups: soc.feminism
- Subject: Re: my two cents about on
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 05:44:47 GMT
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- Sender: muffy@mica.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
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- I wrote:
- >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.
- goid@zooid.guild.ORG (Will Steeves) writes:
- >It's interesting that you would say this, Mara.
-
- >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...
-
- I had in mind institutions like Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.
- The Century Club. Assorted sports clubs. Business and
- professional organizations (like Rotary International)
- that had explicit charters restricting membership to men.
-
- I would be most interested to see a comparable list of powerful
- institutions on local, regional, national and international levels
- that forbid access to men.
-
- Living Well Lady doesn't cut it. At least, there's no evidence yet
- that it does.
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- Mara Chibnik
- mara@panix.com Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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