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From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: AKICIF: Immigrants to Herland
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 07:28:19 -0400
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On 5/11/25 9:34 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
> 
> 
> 11 May 2025
> 
> (Herland, 1915 novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.)
> 
> It being Mother's Day, I was reminded of a review of
> _Herland_ the author of which thought it a grievous flaw in
> the book that the Herlanders thought that motherhood was
> important.  (Sorry; no cite; I skimmed over it weeks ago.)
> 
> Which makes me wonder why some men want to be women when
> women are being vigorously assured that they can't possibly
> be equal to men unless they are indistinguishable from men
> -- any interest in traditional female pursuits such as food,
> clothing, shelter, and the propagation of the species must
> be roundly denounced.
> 
> 
The characterization that "some men want to be women" is (IMHO) a gross 
mis-statement of what is going on.

-- 
Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn
"No government--regardless of which party is in power--should
dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit
and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."
--Alan M. Garber, President of Harvard