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...they did not think at all. But now issues that used to be reserved for "ratbags" (irresponsible eccentrics)-such as the white-Australia policy, the treatment of the country's 180,000 aborigines, Viet Nam, abortion, the status of women-are discussed widely. An embryonic Women's Lib movement based in Sydney has just published the first issue of its newsletter Mejane, named for Tarzan's overly protected mate. Says Daryl Jackson, a young Melbourne architect who has worked and studied in the U.S.: "On all of these issues there is now what might be called...
...More Broads. At men's-lib meetings, great emphasis is placed on recognizing "male chauvinism." Members compare women to oppressed minorities and castigate themselves as oppressors. They profess to believe, in the words of a University of Wisconsin professor, that "just as the first step for a white man in handling racial prejudice is to confess his own racism, so we are trying to deal with our own chauvinism." How? The general strategy advocated at most men's-lib sessions is to stop calling women "broads" or "chicks" and to take on more responsibility for birth control, child...
Psychologist Louis Cutrona, a member of a Boston group, has carried the principles of men's lib into the business world. At his consulting firm, he refuses to ask his secretary to bring him coffee in the morning or to cash his checks at the bank. "I don't think that's what a woman has contracted for if she is a secretary," he explains...
Others have gone even further-perhaps too far. Members of a Portland, Ore., group, for example, have used such phrases as "God in heaven, She loves us all." David Bathrick, professor of German at the University of Wisconsin, who began doing housework after his wife joined Women's Lib, is enthusiastic about his new outlet. "I really get a kick out of cleaning the bathroom," he says...
...relatively few men in the movement are worried about or interested in homosexuality. Most of them believe that men's lib has strengthened their relationship with women, making them more sensitive to feminine feelings and easing the panic they experienced when their once-passive wives became active feminists...