Fwd: Re: Safe Sex is No Fun

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 24 Mar 1996, Tresy Kilbourne wrote:

> It's a common myth that the counterculture (of which GR is the most 
> splendid legacy) was sexually tolerant, when in fact it was quite sexist 
> and homophobic. 


Don't remember the homophobic so much, but then a lot of people kept 
pretty much to the closet in the sixties. Things were more invisible.

The Sexism couldn't have been more so, I would concur. The guys would sit 
around in their beards like the four wisemen hatching weighty plans to bring
down the system, while the gals were fixing something to eat. And nobody
seemed to notice a thing.

Later on in the seventies, stories of life in the commune (or 
wherever) began to appear. I heard one. She wasn't a radical feminist,
or even bitter about her experiences. She just described what she 
remembered.

It's hard to watch _Easy Rider_ today with a straight face.

					P.