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To: Ilaine who wrote (21700)	6/22/2006 10:40:02 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541482

Of course I know what feminism is. What you're describing is not the politics of feminism but what should be obvious to anyone. Who would dispute that women have the right to be educated, to work, to vote, etc. The "obligation to not dress or behave like sex objects" is a tenet of feminism. It would be helpful for young women of all colors to have sufficient self-respect that such behaviors would be unnecessary. I'm a woman. I went to college and law school in the 1970's. Half of my law school class was female. Being a woman was not a problem then or now. If some 30 years later the message that women can be educated, etc. is not getting through, either the putative recipients of the message are stupid or there are other reasons for the current problems. As I said, part of the focus has to be on the young men. As you say, feminism dictates that women aren't "adjuncts to men". But both have civil responsibilities. Feminism was supposed to be about giving women rights equal to men. Not saddling them with the responsibility for all social ills. Until the fathers of the unwed mothers step up to their responsibilities, the cycle can't be broken. The prospective mothers have to be responsible about birth control or abstinence. Again, decisions that every high school student has made, regardless of color.