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Grex Femme Item 32: New feminist line of dolls [linked]
Entered by popcorn on Thu Feb 16 15:20:12 UTC 1995:

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#1 of 8 by md on Thu Feb 16 15:39:17 1995:

Cool, miniskirted superheroines doesn't sound feminist at all.
Wouldn't a feminist doll have to look more like Andrea Dworkin?
And assuming anyone would want to own such an object, what would
you do with it?  Pull its tampon string and hear it yell "All
heterosexual intercourse is rape!" at your Ken doll?  And all this
ignores the fact that "feminist doll" is an oxymoron.

#2 of 8 by glenda on Sat Feb 18 00:10:03 1995:

Per author's request, this is now linked as item 63 in smalls

#3 of 8 by popcorn on Sun Feb 19 12:50:00 1995:

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#4 of 8 by chelsea on Sun Feb 19 14:48:07 1995:

And I didn't add my comment because #1 was such a hard act to follow. ;-)

To me it's just another sign that the word feminist is long past
being a useful term.  It means too many things to too many people.
To those wanting to make a few bucks it means selling Barbie dolls
with miniskirts and an imaginary attitude.

Speaking of how long feminism has been around - I found this the
other day:

     I myself have never been able to find out precisely what 
     feminism is:  I only know that people call me a feminist
     whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from
     a doormat.
                                    -Rebecca West, in 1913

#5 of 8 by popcorn on Sun Feb 19 21:24:43 1995:

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#6 of 8 by brighn on Wed Feb 22 22:15:56 1995:

#0:  What's the difference between those and Wonder Woman or Catwoman?
Mee-yow!  Seems like the same thing to me, so maybe the concept just 
isn't all that new.

#1:  Bitter, are we?  Should we take this particular line to Homme,
mayhap?

Mary:  The word "feminism" ceased to be useful about fifteen years ago.
This is just a minor step in its demise.  The biggest step was when
"feminism" and "separatism" became synonymous in some circle, hence
Michael's cynicism.

And if there are GI Joe "dolls" then "feminist dolls" is certainly not 
an oxymoron.

#7 of 8 by md on Thu Feb 23 13:57:01 1995:

Not bitter, just in epigrammatic mode, which is where I seem
to be more and more of late.  "Aphoristicism is a symptom of
arteriosclerosis."  (Nabokov)  "It takes all kinds of in- and
outdoor schooling / To get accustomed to my kind of fooling."
(Frost)  May the goddess smile on you, or at least not step
on your toe, brighn.

#8 of 8 by brighn on Fri Feb 24 18:51:58 1995:

Thanks.  :)

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