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After the Vietnam issue expanded to a primitive revolutionary consciousness, a new tension emerged within radical groups. Women demanded an end to their brutalization in the male-dominated movement. They were tired of doing the shitwork and subordinating themselves to the avaricious egos of male movement heavies: By expressing the sexism of male radicals and their egoistic drives for leadership, the women's movement eroded the moral purity of the new revolutionary consciousness. Rather than immediately confront these realities, male radicals were eager to accept a separatism drive on the part of women...
...must conceal our weakness, maintain a myth of omnipotence. But we have been taught that our dealings in the "man's world" are what is really important anyway. Within the context of this dying society, we are the beneficiaries of sexism. While we become rich, famous, powerful, the shitwork will be done for us by "our" women, changing diapers, typing reports, washing dishes, scrubbing the floors. (If we are rich enough, we will let our wives out of some of these jobs by paying an even more oppressed woman to do them.) Harvard is part of a long process...
...must conceal our weakness, maintain a myth of omnipotence. But we have been taught that our dealings in the "man's world" are what is really important anyway. Within the context of this dying society, we are the beneficiaries of sexism. While we become rich, famous, powerful, the shitwork will be done for us by "our" women, changing diapers, typing reports, washing dishes, scrubbing the floors. (If we are rich enough, we will let our wives out of some of these jobs by paying an even more oppressed woman to do them.) Harvard is part of a long process...
...understand oppression. We have largely opted out of a system which oppresses women daily-our egos are not built on putting women down and having them build us up. Also, living in a mostly male world we have become used to playing different roles, doing our own shitwork. And finally, we have a common enemy: the big male chauvinists are also the big antigays...
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