From: Zeynep Tufekcioglu <zeynept-AT-turk.net>
Subject: Re: M-I: Feminist Demands
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 02:12:29 +0200



>Finally, thanks go to Yoshie for her recent thoughtful post pointing
>out the double oppression of women and how their struggles, even in the
>rich countries, should be supported unconditionally. 
>

Sid, at least we agree that Yoshie's post was great. I suggest you reread it
and try to imagine how much one can help the cause of the toiling and
working women by labelling them as "bourgeois feminists" everytime they
speak up against sexism and being labelled for using "their beauty and
flirting behaviour". Try to imagine how much they'd be able to speak up in a
forum when a woman, any woman, prostested against anything, anything at all,
would be labelled "bourgeois feminists" and everyone else who agreed with
them acussed of treating them with "kid gloves", just because they happen to
be a woman, when it is neither the case, nor asked for.

As for the Mormons, sorry if it is wrong. You see, I work with a lot of
woman workers and revolutionaries here and it is quite funny for me to see a
forum like this one in which women are singled out for their gender and
blamed for being "too sensitive", whatever that is supposed to mean. See,
here one tends to think that leftists in the US must be at least as good, if
not better, as our male comrades here, regarding gender oppression. When
faced with rather inexplicable behaviour, I wonder if the reason is
something quite extraordinary. Ok. No Mormons. You're naturally like that. 

Zeynep



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