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Several prominent leaders of the Women's Lib movement have raised a new banner to battle under: bisexuality. Reacting to TIME'S story (Dec. 14) reporting Militant Kate Mil left's public admission that she is "bisexual," nine Women's Lib leaders held a press conference last week in New York City to announce common cause with "the struggle of homosexuals to attain their liberation in a sexist society." The leaders, including Millett herself, Ti-Grace Atkinson of the National Organization of Women, and Writers Gloria Steinem, Sally Kempton and Susan Brownmiller, issued a prepared statement...
...Women's Lib theoretician, Margaret Benston, has made an economic analysis that places the blame for the "exploitation" of women directly on the family. Since women's work in the home is not paid for, she reasons, it is considered valueless by society. Moreover, at present, equal opportunity of employment simply means that a woman has two jobs: one at work and one at home. All work must therefore be taken out of the home and paid for like any other product; only such innovations as communal kitchens and universal child-care centers will "set women free," she says...
...sales of $300 million this Christmas−glad tidings to about 200 card companies. Like the automakers, the card publishers alter their models annually. Some cards now laud the joys of grass−not the kind that suburbanites mow. Others pay jovial tribute to Women's Lib: YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS AND FOR ONE THING SHE IS FAT. The themes of "love" and "youth"−perhaps as an indirect tribute to Mr. Agnew−have replaced "peace" as the most prevalent messages this year. But most cards, as always, aim at traditional sentimentality, unabashedly celebrating...
Smiles and strength to women's lib...
...most of men's options open to her, has found work less interesting and sex less fun than she had hoped. By her very discontent with what most men find rewarding, she has proved herself different from men. But to this she is blind; in Women's Lib she has created a "culture of dissatisfaction," and she has found someone to blame...