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[davemarc]

At 09:51 AM 10/31/96 -0600, moon goddess Diana wrote:
>Yes, I was a tad shocked by the men/bad, women/good dichotomy--is that
>really a feminist credo?  Sheesh.  I always thought I was a man--including
>up through graduate school in all those Pynchon seminars where I was the
>only woman.  I was there because I wanted to be, but I did notice a
>divergence in our responses to the representations of dead women, which
>seemed to abound in DeLillo, Pynchon, etc. and I began sadly to realize
>that I wasn't one of the boys.  But before I became a card-carrying
>feminist I had to learn that feminist theory regards gender constructions
>as the constraint to be analyzed--constructions affecting men and women
>both.  In fact in some ways I think men clearly have it worse--note the
>earlier post about men dying younger and their lives being dangerous: this
>could have come straight from the first day lecture in my Women's
>Studies courses, but it came from someone who feels alienated by feminist
>agendas! A real misunderstanding is afoot; I am glad to hear about it. Diana
>
Yes, it's sad to see how many misunderstandings about feminism prevail.
Feminism is a large movement that by no means consists entirely of female
chauvinists.  Betty Friedan and other prominent feminists have repeatedly
asserted their position that the movement seeks to liberate men as well as
women from gender constraints.  The 1966 charter of NOW states as one of its
primary goals the achievement of equality for women "in a truly equal
partnership with men."

ObPynchon:  V. appeared in the same year as The Feminine Mystique.

davemarc