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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (44345)	7/6/1999 10:09:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Feminism is a more touchy subject for women than it is for men. That might be because men have jeered at feminism -- of every variety -- for a very long time. (Not all men, of course.) Did you ever see any of those caricatures of the suffragettes, for example? And how do you think women like being called "FemiNazis"? Some women decry feminism for the very reason, I think, that they simply do not want to be made fun of. (Which does not mean that they would not want equal pay for equal work, etc.) Gosh, I can remember -- it was not too long ago -- when a woman (no matter how much money she had) could not buy a house in Connecticut (and maybe in other states too), unless a man countersigned. My husband had a divorced female colleague, a college professor, who came to us in great embarrassment once, told us she was buying a house, and asked my husband to countersign. He did, of course. I wonder whether we would have been liable had she defaulted on her mortgage loan. Probably, we would have. So this "feminism" thing puts women in a bind: on the one hand,they don't want to be made to look ridiculous; on the other, they do want the right to buy a house on their own (or a contemporary equivalent right). All IMO, of course. Joan