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...Harvard Law School Forum is a non-profit law student organization inviting authorities in areas of public interest to come to the Law School and speak on any topics related to their fields. Past speakers this year include feminist Betty Friedan and John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus...
...Betty Friedan seemed to be in shock...
...hardly what Friedan expected...
...moles" (spy jargon for longtime double agents) quickly learned that Josie Bissell and Esther Mullin had other prophets, among them Kate Millett and Betty Friedan. Indeed, the Revolutionary Committee had formed as a separate faction because Bissell and Mullin found too much "male supremacy" in the Weather Underground. The women refused any special treatment from the men and forbade them to use such words as bitchy, ballsy or aggressive when talking about women. They also never wore dresses or makeup, except as disguises, condemning them as symbols of male exploitation that were also out of keeping with...
...abortion, the thorniest was the question of homosexual rights. Many delegates feared that inclusion of a plank calling for the end to discrimination on the basis of sexual preference would discredit the whole national plan in the eyes of the public ?and Congress. During the debate, Betty Friedan, who had long argued that endorsing lesbian rights would hurt the women's movement, rose to announce a change of heart: "As someone who has grown up in Middle America and has loved men?perhaps too well?I've had trouble with this issue. But we must help women...