Second Meeting of the Women's Liberation Movement
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1969-03-28
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Anyone sensitive to currents of irrational rage, who attended the second meeting,,
felt great unease from the experience of feeling an un-understood rage flowing
into a political movement. Most men and women approve of the aims of the movement,
and would like to work in the programs, but many wills shy away because the
drawing power of the movement is in part based upon an appeal to un-understood
emotions."
"1 . Language : It is important to use language responsibly. The greeting
"sisters" should be deleted from the meeting because of the terrible
echoes ( "fatherland", "comrades"), and the connotations of a mystical or
socialistic union.
2. The yellow pamphlet associated with the movement: Ellis and Masters,
or any of the other sex-psychologists quoted in the yellow pamphlet, may
realize the effect sexual repression has had on women in our culture,
but they do not realize that the inability of a large percentage of women
to experience total orgasm is also an effect of sexual repression...
3. Psychological? Sociological?
Certain situations are more relevantly treated as psychological issues,
rather than material for a political movement."