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Subject: Re: What does "Male-dominated society" mean?
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Date: 26 Jan 93 02:38:36 GMT
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Thought I'd share this.  From _Man!_ magazine winter 1992.
A review of susan Faludi's _Backlash_ by Davis Taylor.


..
   What is not well understood outside of the men's movement is that the
patriarchal system brought into our awareness by the women's movement is
not a much better deal for most men than it is for most women.  As Robert
Moore says in his book _King, Warrior, Magician, Lover_, the feminist
critique that the patriarchy is out to destroy women is half right, but
the patriarchy is out to destroy men, too.  It is a dehumanizing and
life-sucking system, whether one happens to be male or female.  Yes,
patriarchy is an expression of the masculine, not the feminine.  But it is
an expression of the immature masculine, or as Moore says, "It expresses
the stunted masculine fixated at immature levels.  Patriarchy is based on
fear--the boys's fear, the immature masculine's fear--of women, to be
sure, but also fear of men.  Boys fear women.  They also fear real men."
..

Ever heard anything like that before?

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fitting home not only for the human race, but for all the vast diversity
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