Re: feminism

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/14/06, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> what is feminism? I had lunch with one of my female colleagues
> yesterday. Interestingly, she used the word "feminism" in a negative
> way in the same conversation as she expressed a lot of "feminist"
> attitudes.

Lots of American women are like that.

Americans, male or female, just don't like the idea of subscribing to
any "ism" all that much, even when their ideas objectively conform to
this or that "ism."  The idea of "ism," which suggests a system upheld
by a group of people, goes against the dominant American perception of
self.
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