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Subject: Re: Feminist Movement

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Maria

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Date Posted: 11:15:53 07/30/02 Tue
In reply to: Astrid 's message, "Re: Feminist Movement" on 20:43:31 07/29/02 Mon

>>Have you ever read Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology? It's been
>>awhile so I don't remember all the details, but she
>>was making all these connections between FGM practices
>>and Nazi medical experiments on women . . . and then
>>connecting it to consentual straight sex. I couldn't
>>even finish the book. She was flat-out saying that you
>>can't be a feminist if you're not a lesbian. So no
>>wonder so many women think that they can't be
>>feminists and that feminism is meaningless to them.
>
>FGM practices? No, I haven't read it.

FGM is Female Genital Mutilation, i.e. female circumcision, which I think is a horribly misleading term -- it's what circ would be if you cut the penis *off.*

>LOL, I think we run in the same online circles, Maria.
> I am really only a regular on the BC bf/ff board. I
>need to get a life, I know.
>
I've been hanging out over at the Mothering boards ever since the mother of the nursing 8yo posted there . . .

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Re: Feminist Movement	Astrid	17:14:05 07/30/02 Tue