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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
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Subject: Re: skirt-wearing
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Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 03:35:59 EST
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> EXACTLY TRUE.  Even the phrase "I feel feminine when..."  is offensive
> because it immediately associates femininity with "feelings" and elevates
> the status of "feelings" to a feminist issue. Men don't say "I feel 
> masculine when...",  they say "I prove that I am a man when...."
  
Seems to me I've read about 20 articles in the last two weeks by men who
said "I feel masculine when...". On the other hand I have *never* heard a man
say "I prove that I am a man when...". I get the giggles just imagining it.

C'mon, Cheryl, you don't usually miss. Or have we run up against a local
cultural difference?

					Jeff Winslow