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willing to die?

Submitted by Ann Dixon on Fri, 09/21/2007 - 8:40am.

I think we should examine that definition of a feminist a little more closely.

A feminist is someone who would die to have equal rights between men and women." He asked his question again...all hands remained down except for his.

Isn't the teacher using a war metaphor to describe feminism? And for women, most (?) women, a war metaphor might not resonate at all. If the teacher had used a different type of metaphor, he might have gotten a different result. I'm thinking of a birthing metaphor, one of creation, not destruction.

Ann, BMC '83

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