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From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (aMAZon)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Def. of Feminism
Message-ID: <2733@ihuxf.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 01:20:22 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  2 01:20:22 1985
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> Richard Threadgill (orstcs!richardt) writes:
> "Feminism v. Non-Sexism"
> 
> These are two distinct ideas.  Feminism, *by its definition* is sexism,
> the situation is merely reversed with the women running the show.
> 
> Non-sexism is an attitude which says "people are people and deserve certain
> courtesies and respect, regardless of anatomy and other accidents of
> nature."

He further goes on to say that he doesn't like feminists, (implying
that feminists are closet matriarchs who want to rule the world) and
that net.women should be promoting equality between the sexes.

His "definition" is so far off the mark it's ludicrous.  Even my
Webster's  (no hotbed of radicalism there) defines feminism as

	1) the theory of the political, economic, and social
	   equality of the sexes
	2) organized activity on behalf of women's rights and
	   interests
	
FEMINISM != ROLE-REVERSED PATRIARCHY!
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