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From: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: skirt-wearing
Message-ID: <624@lasspvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 15:12:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 15:12:29 1985
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Reply-To: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
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Summary: 

In article <2402@sdcrdcf.UUCP> barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) writes:
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>I think our culture teaches us to confuse competency and stoicism with
>masculinity, sensuality and incompetency with femininity.
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>--Lee Gold

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...."

I would say that economic, political and social issues are more important
topics than people's feelings, and whether a skirt connotes femininity
or how it makes you "feel".  I wear a good suit because it is appropriate
and important that I do so to maintain an economic, political and social
position.  Suits for women are skirted.  If appropriate suits for women
had to be green with orange polka-dots, I would probably wear a green
suit with orange polka-dots.  

           Cheryl Stewart