Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihu1g!smann From: smann@ihu1g.UUCP (Sherry Mann) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Re: backlash to the feminist movement Message-ID: <542@ihu1g.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 13:51:27 EDT Article-I.D.: ihu1g.542 Posted: Thu Oct 18 13:51:27 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 09:31:50 EDT References: <631@ubc-vision.CDN> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 27 >>I think the 'feminist' movement of the 60's and 70's has made its mistakes... >>only concentrated on half of the population (women) and largely ignored >>the other half (men)...assumed that women were being oppressed by men and >>failed to see that men and women were both being oppressed...saw the faults >>of men and remained blind to faults of women... regarded gentleness and >>sensitivity as basically female or feminine qualities and therefore >>indirectly forced men to choose between being insensitive or becoming more >>'feminine'...could have had a broader vision. I think that you ask a lot of the feminist movement "of the 60's and 70's" when you consider it was, for the most part, a struggle in which women were the only participants, and that most men at that time were very much against the points the feminist movement was trying to make. It interests me that after the huge advancements that WOMEN have made in the area of women's rights, men can now stand up and say, "but what about us, why don't you fight for our rights also?" I can't understand why MEN haven't stood up and fought for their rights. Of course the other side of the feminist movement is rights for all people, but don't lay the blame on feminists or the feminist movement for not paying attention to YOUR needs. Sherry Mann ihnp4!ihu1g!smann