THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, September 6, 1995 TAG: 9509060003
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A10 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 34 lines
The recent article celebrating the 75th anniversary of the 19th Amendment claimed that ``women suffrage is the great-grandmother of . . . the post-feminism of the '90s.'' The women who fought so tirelessly to secure the right to vote would be loath to make such a claim.
They would be especially outraged to see the agenda for what is being called a landmark event for feminism, the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.
At the heart of this conference is a concept known as ``gender feminism,'' which claims that sexual expression is not the natural result of genetics but ``a product of human thought and culture.'' Its goal: to eradicate the distinction between masculinity and femininity from the cultures of the world.
It claims that the family is responsible for most of the violence suffered by women and girls and that men and women need not be partners in the care and nurturing of children.
What a surprise this would be to suffragists, who wanted political equality because of the differences between men and women, and whose primary concern was the protection of the fmaily.
TINA R. BOYER
Virginia Beach, Aug. 29, 1995 by CNB