Dear Sir, I am assuming you are a sir, perhaps unfairly, but I can't really imagine a woman in this day and age projecting the beliefs you project.Firstly, I would like to point out that Feminism is as subjective a term as "Pagan". Not all feminists conform to the sterotypical man-hating, white-male bashing, militant sexless lesbians the media(the common source of blame in these affairs I realize) may insinuate.I consider myself an ardent young feminist, along with the other titles of socialist, civil -rights activist, and that ever so touchy of terms, Liberal. To this I'm sure I must come off like an ogre. But, I must point this out. I am a feminist in the sense in I believe women and men are equal and hey, we aren't getting treated that way. When I say we, I mean we, men and women. Women have a harder path to climb, yes, but we both have our struggles with what is fair. Women alledgedly had their liberation back around the 1970's or so, according to popular belief. That's fine, everything's fixed and the term feminist can now safely be used for insult, especially when paired with "lesbian". This from an age which reinforces the message that women are worth nothing unless they are sexy at whatever time they can also manage to be revolutionary, intelligent and qualified. (I point out here the use of the word "sexy" over "sexual") If an instance of this is needed, merely look to history's telling of Jacqueline Kennedy, a woman with no historical impact other than a role as a fashionable arm piece for her phallandering husband is deified over Eleanor Roosevelt, a woman who among other things, was an advocate for civil rights, gay rights and acceptance long before it was fashionable and yes, feminism. But there is always the snide remark about Roosevelt's looks. Apparently while she was marching with the Colored Children's Coalition, she should have been outfitted in Dior.

Why am I so angry? I am angry because I live in a society where for centuries women have been overlooked in history, only for a small paragraph at the end of a history textbook chapter or a "Woman's Studies" (How I hate that word!) course that is supposed to be the result of a bloody and poignant revolution, only to be taken away by the same people (Not necessarily white males, thank you) who have so little a sense of history as to complain about this meagre bit along with the well-intentioned affirmative action. I also am angry that the country has shifted so sharply to the right the last 20 years or so (Scandal aside, Clinton was still the Conservative's Democrat) that the term "Woman's Liberation" is camp fodder for hiliarity in sitcoms everywhere.

I'm so tired of people's memories being so short they can't see why a need for women in history is undervalued. I'm tired of complaints of white-male bashing thrown in my face every time slavory, or the post-war de-evolution is brought up. Are we as not just a nation but as a world so short sighted we can't see a need for feminism? Women are still on the market as sex-objects the only difference is now it's considered empowering to be considered sexy and it's starting even younger,it seems. Pretty soon that period before puberty many women are in therapy trying to recapture will be gone forever.

I realize this may seem as a whole like I'm putting down your beliefs. I suppose I am. I welcome your well-founded arguments, however. It would be a pleasant change to spar with an educated opposition for once. I'm sure you'd understand that my peers in high school have no direction for politics. I can't blame them really, their parents don't care either. But then mine don't seem to profess much of an interest, and look at me.