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- From: harikuma@enterprise.ifp.uiuc.edu (G. Harikumar)
- Newsgroups: soc.feminism
- Subject: Re: Version Five -- I better shut up!
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 00:50:00 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- levine@symcom.math.uiuc.EDU (Lenore Levine) writes:
-
- >In conclusion, I would like to suggest two New Year's resolutions, for
- >myself and the readers of soc.feminism. The one is to *pay attention* to
- >people's true characters -- to try to figure out what's going on behind
- >the mask. The other is, not to thrust daggers of unwarranted blame into
- >ourselves, when we should be blaming society.
-
- In other words, what you are suggesting is the following.
- If you hear someone criticizing the feminist movement or
- one of its proponents, you merely categorize him into
- on of the following groups:
-
- 1) Those with psychological problems
-
- 2) Those who use women and want to continue doing so.
-
- 3) Those undergoing a "paradigm shift", ie, confused.
-
- 4) Those who have been given the short shift in a professional/
- social environment and are angry, confused and
- mistakenly blaming their travails on feminism.
- (I read: Immature).
-
- How convenient. A very nice way of escaping criticism/scrutiny.
- "Anyone who criticizes what I believe in is not worth listening
- to, anyway." I'm sorry, but I do not agree with you.
-
- I agree with most of what feminists say; but I do believe that
- they have gone overboard a lot of times. Constructive criticism,
- scrutiny and a healthy transfusion of common sense will not
- hurt feminism; it will only strengthen it.
-
- Let me point out specifically what is wrong with your reasoning.
- Your classification is not different in principle from the
- right wing classification of feminists as belonging to one of
- the following classes.
-
- 1) Lesbians.
-
- 2) Unattractive women who are trying to come into mainstream
- society, who have smelled power and who are not going to
- let go without a fight.
-
- Which, as we will all agree, is BS.
-
- G. Harikumar
-
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