Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!cheryl 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 Article-I.D.: lasspvax.624 Posted: Fri Oct 25 15:12:29 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 20:00:01 EDT References: <248@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1944@reed.UUCP> <32@ubc-cs.UUCP> <848@homxb.UUCP> <37@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1246@mtgzz.UUCP> <2402@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Reply-To: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) Organization: LASSP, Cornell University Lines: 21 Summary: In article <2402@sdcrdcf.UUCP> barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) writes: > >I think our culture teaches us to confuse competency and stoicism with >masculinity, sensuality and incompetency with femininity. > >--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