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From: wombat@uicsl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: The power of words - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 23:44:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  1 23:44:38 1984
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uicsl!wombat    Feb  1 13:50:00 1984

I don't think most people are talking about "censorship" here; they just
want to give their children the chance to hear an idea in a form that
may cause them to see more relevance to their own lives. Adults can
play games feminising literature to see how it changes the works, how
it reflects on the authors, etc., but I don't think anyone is seriously
proposing feminising their local library, or even mindlessly replacing
men with people in arbitrary works. I think once children start reading
for themselves, they should be told what's what and given the writer's
original words, but with the option of reading what they want to into those
words. Parents just might want to make their daughters feel included, though,
in bedtime stories and philosophical quotes; they also might want to
show their sons that females are people, too.
						Wombat
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