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From: jamcmullan@watmath.UUCP (Judy McMullan)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: The power of words
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Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 10:31:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 10 10:31:12 1984
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I think Thoman Johnston missed the point of the "feminized" quotes. Altering
the quotes was a vehicle for generating some news ways of thinking about the
sentiments expressed. No matter that the word "man" means "man or woman". When
the word "woman" is used in the quote, it speaks to a woman more directly and
has more power to stir up her feelings. The new quotes were
INTENDED to speak to only women.
That was the point of the original article in "Ms". Not only did the altered
quotes seem to apply to women more, they often seemed as if they were
urging women to be strong and take control of their own lives, as the
feminist movement urges.

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