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To: 8bits who wrote (24835)	12/29/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: lorrie coey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

"I was reading Betty Friedan was a Graduate student at UC Berkeley. I buy records in Berkeley." Berzerkely must be great hunting grounds for rare vinyl...and that explains alot about Betty. "I thought part of the premise of the "The Feminine Mystique" was that "cajones" should not be a measure of worth in our culture." I'll take your word for it...I've never read "TFM". I agree that one's reproductive potential IS no measure of one's "worth". In male "society", they themselves often covet each other's genitalia. It's part of what I've called "the Pecker Order". If and until men evolve and stop relating to each other in terms of "dominance and submission" "cajones", testes, animelles and phallic symbols... whatever you like to call 'em...will continue to be a cultural fixation and preoccupation...(see the 105th congress + the starr report or just "Jeff Stryker"). Perhaps the reality IS that testicles, along with any iteration of a phallus, both literally and figuratively, are symbols of power, superiority, aggression and domination...so I suppose les was complimenting Betty when he suggested that she is the "patriarch of feminism"! I do know that "TFM" was popular with Women of my Mother's and Grandmother's generations. I've never been able to bring myself to read it because if my hunch about TFM is right, the book didn't do Women alot of favors. I've noticed a particular and very disturbing type of misogyny in Women of those generations. I suspect that Betty's seminal work, "The Feminine Mystique" has something to do with that sad fact. "All healthy humans produce, to some extent, both estrogen and testosterone as well as many other hormones." Yes and both of these hormones significantly influence our behavior. Alot of Women have beards and alot of men could use a Training Bra, so to speak...ken starr just crossed my mind!.