features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko) (11/01/84)
There's been a flurry of articles about The Feminist Movement of the 60's and 70's. People have taken various positions about it; one popular one is that it was totally against men. I was there at the time. I was active. (Still am.) I don't remember anyone suggesting the apocryphal Amazonian solution of killing all the male babies, or even the male adults. The emphasis was then, as it is now, on *equal* rights. Notice, I said equal. Equal means equal. The same. For all human beings. No one group ought to have a "natural" advantage over another in those things that are basically human. (I'll acknowledge that I've yet to see a female sperm donor or a male wet-nurse.) This includes training, education, job opportunities, respect from other people, etc. Someone stated that all that The Feminist Movement (that monolithic media creation; all feminists are NOT the same) had done was to create problems that ought to be solved on a personal level. But the personal IS political. Changing society can't be done on an individual basis. Together, we can change our society to one in which each person's talents are nutured, where all people are respected. I'd like my kids to grow up in a world like that; I wouldn't mind living in it myself. Comments welcome. Mary Ann Zeszutko ihnp4!ihuxf!features