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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 09:56:43 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: M-TH: Dead beat dads?


Gary Dale:
>How about the reclamation and ascendancy of 'feminine values' in
>society at large over 'masculine' values?  For a stark example,
>look how the military is re-packaging itself as a 'gender normed'
>women-friendly, human-rights loving organisation.  

What a meathead. The exclusion of blacks, gays or women from the military
must be challenged by socialists. To grant equal rights to blacks, gays or
women does not turn the military into a "human-rights" loving organization.
It simply eliminates discrimination.

>
>One problem with the feminist critique of masculinity tends to be
>it's moral character - all the rhetoric about 'dead beat dads'
>is reaciontary criticism imv.  Another is gender theorists/social
>constructionists reproducing old prejudices as virtues.

All the rhetoric about 'dead beat dads'? What planet are you living on? The
only rhetoric about 'dead beat dads' that I know about is tied to men
refusing to support their children. What this has to do with feminism is
anybody's guess. I guess somebody who has made an amalgam of "Megan's Law"
and feminism could come up with something as hallucinatory as this. What is
the deal with Living Marxism anyhow? It is one thing to be outrageous, it
is another thing to be ridiculous.

Louis Proyect



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