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  1. Newsgroups: alt.feminism
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!wupost!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!xn.ll.mit.edu!ll.mit.edu!x73rl
  3. From: x73rl@ll.mit.edu ( Rick Lafave)
  4. Subject: Re: Reverse -isms?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov19.145130.5258@ll.mit.edu>
  6. Sender: news@ll.mit.edu
  7. Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  8. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 14:51:30 GMT
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  12. #mwasson@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Michael Wasson)
  13. #
  14. ...  much  deleted  ...
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  16. #but I don't think it undermines feminism's basic analysis of 
  17. #*institutionalized* sexism, which largely hurts women not men. And
  18. #
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  20.   There is institutionalized sexism that goes both ways...  Which is greater?
  21. I don't know.  The bottom line is it all hurts us all.   It hurts victims 
  22. for the obvious reasons, and it hurts the perpitrators in the long run 
  23. because it encourages their own stupidity.
  24.  
  25. Rich
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  27. P.S. Not meant to be a flame, just a comment/observation.  
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