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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Here's the opposite view of another liberal feminist, Camille Paglia:
"White middle-class girls at the elite colleges and universities seem to want the world handed to them on a platter. They have been sheltered, coddled, and flattered. Having taught at a wide variety of institutions over my ill-starred career, I have observed that working-class or lower-middle-class girls, who are from financially struggling families and who must take a patchwork of menial off-campus jobs to stay in school, are usually the least hospitable to feminist rhetoric. They see life as it is and have fewer illusions about sex. It is affluent, upper-middle class students who most spout the party line - as if the grisly hyperemotionalism of feminist jargon satisfies their hunger for meaningful experience outside their eventless upbringing. In the absence of war, invent one. (Vamps & Tramps, p. 28)

"Feminist confidence that the whole human race can be "reeducated" to totally eliminate the possibility of rape is pure folly...Wave after wave of boys hit puberty every year. Do feminists, with their multicultural pretensions, really envision a massive export of white bourgeois good manners all around the world? Speak of imperialism!"(Vamps & Tramps, p. 33.)

13 posted on 06/13/2002 7:46:17 PM PDT by stands2reason
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To: stands2reason
working-class or lower-middle-class girls, who are from financially struggling families and who must take a patchwork of menial off-campus jobs to stay in school, are usually the least hospitable to feminist rhetoric

Hey! I resemble that remark! Oh, but nevermind, I fell into the trap and majored in mathematics. My bad.

14 posted on 06/13/2002 8:15:58 PM PDT by dagny taggert
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