Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: skirt-wearing Message-ID: <5785@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 03:35:59 EST Article-I.D.: tekecs.5785 Posted: Sun Oct 27 03:35:59 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 01:05:24 EST References: <248@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1944@reed.UUCP> <32@ubc-cs.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 13 > 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