From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Jun 01 2002 - 00:58:13 MDT
At 09:11 PM 5/31/02 -0700, Olga wrote:
>> from the perspective of mainstream
>> society, the feminists seemed to be deadly serious and rather
>> over-passionate about some things (I guess), and that maybe
>> they just never could laugh at themselves (I suppose).
>The feminists? Which feminists?
It doesn't matter. It's a *joke* (and a good one). The earliest whimsical
version of this I saw was in the early 1970s, when feminism was still
called Women's Liberation and the talkback jocks yucked about bra burning
with many a wink and nudge; the Sydney Libertarians, a raunchy lot, men and
women alike, who had no truck with mealy-mouthed bullshit, caused some
consternation and a lot of belly laughs with a lapel button stating in
large friendly letters I'M A HUMORLESS FEMINIST. (Maybe ya hadda be there.)
Damien Broderick
[a feminist, Old School]
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