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To: Poet who wrote (4912)	6/30/2001 11:58:56 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 6089

You mean an assumption of general superiority of women, or superiority WRT childrearing? Both, actually. I think it is often a visceral thing. I was once invited by a single mother to a meeting of a group that was supposed to provide support and idea-sharing among single parents. Of course I was the only male. A couple of the leaders in the group, with strong feminist inclinations, apparently believed that the functions of the group ought to be rallying of the anti-male feelings of the participants and convincing each other that they were doing something that no man could do. I think they found my presence, and my failure to perceive single parenthood as a titanic battle against adversity, somewhat unsettling. Some of the other participants, taking the opposite view, seemed to have taken the acquisition of another husband as their primary mission in life, and were eyeing me the way a hungry dog looks at a kilo of prime beef. Needless to say, I did not go back. I am not interested in serving as a surrogate for the inadequacies of other males, and I am even less interested in being acquired. An odd experience, all in all. I think feminism has veered off the track in many ways; the women's movement is an interesting case study in institutional suicide.