london@oddjob.UUCP (David London) (05/31/85)
<> I'd like to ask some questions of a somewhat philosophical nature about feminism. (I know that some people would rather talk about the burning issue of toilet paper, but really, who gives a shit? :-) Looking down the line, what are the goals of feminism? Obviously, we want women to have a "fair shake" - to have access to jobs they can't get now, to have equal pay, etc. What else? What sorts of attitudes do we want people to have? At the moment, one goal is to make women feel worthwhile, to be "happy to be women", to feel some sort of solidarity with other women. Do we want to keep this attitude in our "utopian" society? What about individuality? Surely we want to maintain the different cultures in our society. Or does having different cultures inevitably lead to conflict? Do we want the same type of capitalistic system? Or how socialistic do we want society to be? Etc. Etc. On this point, I'm not really interested in how to get there, just where we're going. David London ..!ihnp4!oddjob!london P.S. Obviously, I don't expect everyone to have the same ideas of where we're heading, but perhaps we can find out what the common ground is.