Feminism: No Symmetry between Women an Men (was Re: Giggly Guys)

[William S. Lear]

On Tuesday, March 23, 1999 at 19:53:56 (-0500) Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
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>Feminism is not simply about researching and learning from women talking
>about ourselves (though that is certainly part of our project). Feminism
>is, more importantly, about the abolition of oppressions based upon gender
>(and properly understood, it must be allied with Marxism). To understand
>gender, feminists have had to research, among other things, the social
>construction of masculinity much more so than any man has ever done.

Why "must" feminism be allied with Marxism?


>There is _no symmetry_ between women and men. That men do not have access
>to women's knowledge most emphatically does not mean that its
>opposite--women do not have access to men's understanding of themselves--is
>true. (This is a Hegelian insight of the master-slave relationship.)

What evidence do you have to support this, aside from "Hegelian
insight"?

Bill