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- From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
- Subject: Feminism vs. the Sexual Revolution (was: Are special programs sexist/racist? (long)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.202055.14608@netcom.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 20:20:55 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.224001.26100@netcom.com> <C15qIC.GuD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan21.175018.13801@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan21.175018.13801@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >In article <C15qIC.GuD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >>A few days later I thought about this conversation. I realized that
- >>in 1963, I could not have thus admitted to an older person I knew
- >>in an official capacity that I was "living in sin" -- no matter how
- >>nice they were.
- >
- >Interesting, you attribute this to feminism?
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- Interesting, indeed! This is a consequence of the so-called "sexual revolution,"
- the relaxation of long-standing sexual taboos. The mainstream of contemporary
- feminism stands four-square AGAINST the sexual revolution; Robin Morgan
- has stated this quite explicitly, as have others. You see, now that the
- old sexual taboos are gone, women are now receiving (gasp!) SEXUAL ADVANCES
- from men, which is more or less criminal. There is not the slightest doubt
- that contemporary feminists are mostly working to make sex (actually,
- just hetero sex) pretty much taboo once again, although not in the same way
- as before. (Old taboo: "It's sinful! Licentious! Shameful!" New taboo:
- "It's sexual harrassment and objectification!") Paglia covers the war
- between feminism and the sexual revolution in her new book "Sex, Art, and
- American Culture."
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- --
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- Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
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- Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!
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- "Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that
- they are not even superficial."
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- - Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay Science: 126)
-