Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat From: wombat@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: The power of words - (nf) Message-ID: <5312@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 23:44:38 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5312 Posted: Wed Feb 1 23:44:38 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 15:55:23 EST Lines: 17 #R:watdaisy:-644900:uicsl:16400037:000:882 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 ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat