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- From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.EDU (Lenore Levine)
- Subject: Re: Version Five -- I better shut up!
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 04:19:15 GMT
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- harikuma@enterprise.ifp.uiuc.edu (G. Harikumar) writes:
-
- >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.
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- >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.
-
- I would like to add one final word on your posting. What is pejorative
- about either 1) or 2)?
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- What is wrong about saying some feminists satisfy these characteristics,
- if they are not regarded with contempt?
-
- Lenore Levine
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