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Re: [Fwd: Re: AUT: Re: Selma James Name Change]

Katha Pollitt wrote:

>  I feel that you are trying to explain the greater drudgery of wives
>without  taking account of sexism.

But what is the cause of sexism?

>which isn't just that men and women
>are socialized to be and feel different, but that HE is superior. What
>famous thinker said every binary opposition conceals a hierarchy? Light,
>dark; good, bad; man, woman. That's the problem!

Surely THIS is no explanation! The implication is that such a hierarchy is
natural and inevitable. (Unless we can somehow abolish the  sexual division
of humanity.)

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas.




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