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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: skirt-wearing
Message-ID: <720@rtech.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 00:40:51 EST
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> 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...."

HUH!?!?!?  I have never heard any man say this, or anything remotely like
this.

> 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".
> 
>            Cheryl Stewart

I couldn't disagree more.  Not only are feelings extremely important, they
are intimately involved with all of the intellectual issues you listed above.
At the root of every belief you have on every topic are your feelings about
the topic.  This is not to say that feelings and rationality are
indistiguishable.  They are complementary, and any person who suppresses
emotion in favor of intellect (or vice versa) to any large degree is unbalanced.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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