File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-03-25.232, message 83


From: Zeynep Tufekcioglu <zeynept-AT-turk.net>
Subject: Re: M-I: Feminist Demands 
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 05:40:42 +0200


What is it with some of the list members? The moment they interact with
women who can stand up to their rubbish, they start crying that women are
using "their beauty and flirting behaviour". (On a mailing list, at that.)
Is this some sort of inferiority complex? Perhaps they simply can't stand
principled revolutionary women who won't buy their stupidity and
condescending priestly attitudes. Have you been raised by Mormons, Sid?

Zeynep


At 19:50 24/3/1997 -0500, you wrote:
>
>There is one thing which was quite noticeable in the recent events.
>Most of the males in this list treat the very few women here with kid
>gloves afraid that any rudeness will drive them away. This is sometimes
>exhibited in shows of chivalry and mollycoddling - reflecting ancient
>prejudices of  patriarchy when women were treated as private property.
>The women being so treated sometimes take advantage of this similar
>to women in bourgeois society who, because of their weak and powerless
>postion, get back at the men by using their beauty and flirting behavior.
>
>This was evident in the some recent charges being made by some women and
>men in this forum using the accusation of male chauvinism or Latin
>American macho behavior. I for one will have no truck with this.
>Especially now since the moderators have made the rules of participation
>in this list even more strict. 
>
>Down with educated bourgeois feminism and their male supporters! 
>Long live our majority of working and peasant sisters in the world!
>
>Sid
> 
>
>
>
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