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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:56:06 EDT
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- From: Tim Tumlin <UFTRT@NERVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: feminists
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:51:00 -0500 from <KMORGAN@WHEATNMA>
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- Kathy,
- Sorry I couldn't get back to you fast enough, I had a little work to do.
- Someone pulled the plug on my mainframe's modem ports (HMMMMM,
- and the comics section of a Ms. magazine was found near the back door
- of the computer center).
- Re definition: What's this ... Socrates? I have to define my terms
- before I can play? Maybe defining feminists is like what the supreme
- court justice said about pornography (you can assume this is not about
- C. Thomas) -- I can't define it but I know it when I see it. Or maybe
- we ought to try a DSM style chinese menu form of defining the BAH
- feminist syndrome: diagnose if five of the following nine symptoms are
- present and have been present more days than not for the past six months:
- Naaah, I'm not going to step into that one.
- If you're afraid you're a bitter, angry and humorless feminist, I'm not
- the one to give the personal feedback.
- Actually, I was a little concerned you'd write back to say that you were
- a feminist AND an ultra-religious-right anti-abortion type as well and what
- the heck did I mean by ultra-religious-right etc etc. All I need is Faludi
- AND Pat Robertson on my trail. Shades of the Blues Brothers: WE are on a
- mission from God.
-
- Stephanie: I haven't forgotten Santa Cruz, but among all those pious
- and righteous neo-nazis were some courageous progressives.
- I recall Elliot Aronson telling me the story that he was actually in some
- fear for his well being when confronted by some "liberal" students who were
- mad because he had a part in inviting Jensen to speak at the campus. No one
- , including Elliot, thought Jensen was right, but his political incorrectness
- got the BAH students upset and they demanded he be banned from visiting
- that City on a Hill.
-
- T.
-