Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxf!features 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 Article-I.D.: ihuxf.2733 Posted: Sat Nov 2 01:20:22 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:27:58 EST References: <10000012@orstcs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 27 > 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! -- aMAZon @ AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL; ihnp4!ihuxf!features *open to possibilities*