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> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 27 15:40 EDT 1995
> From: Zeldoy B Barger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 15:40:28 -0400 (EDT)
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> I've been a list member since it's beginning, I am a white male,
> interested in gender issues, especially from an Ecofeminist perspective.
> Al---I agree with what has been stated against your arguments---yes, we
> as males must recognize our role in this social system, yes, we must
> learn to deal with womens anger, on their terms, it's the only way to
> begin to understand how things need to change. We must also understand
> that as males, we can run the copy machine, or whatever else is wanted by
> the oppressed group, ie. women, womyn, WOMEN or any other name or word
> that is used to describe the group. Freedom from oppression is not given,
> anymore than equality or equity is given, no matter how benevolent the
> giver.
> Freedom, true freedom is the ability to pursue ones human potentiel--not
> feminine or masculine potentiel, but human potentiel and it comes from
> empowerment through equity, empowerment through self. I recognize
> dirrerences in masculine and feminine and do not see the two as equal,
> but as complimentary. Yes, each can survive-for a while without the
> other, but to survive, both are needed and both are equally important to
> the process of survival. I've said my two cents worth, I'm usually a
> lerker, but needed to speak to this argument---flame me if you must, but
> understand that I am as intitiled to my opinion as you are to yours.
> thanks-----Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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