Dear Marion,

Thank you for your letter. It was very instructive.
You have a lot to teach me, although what I think I
learn is not necessarily what you have in mind. I
have long since concluded that you are invariably 
on the side of the angels. What your letters are teaching
me is that being on the side of the angels is a social,
a public, not a private position. The goal to be achieved
is a public one. The goal is to be accomplished by a group,
by a team into which the individual is expected to integrate
herself and to which she must subordinate herself. The
individual's responsibility is absolved when her individuality 
merges into that of the group. Did I get it right?
An individual lends her intelligence and interest and effort
to social action, just as she lends her voice to a choir or
chorus. The melody and the rhythm are not her own.

The program, the script for this communal action
is an historical account.
That historical account is an approximation.
by the circumstance that it is forever changing
and can never be conclusively delimited or defined.
Likewise the communal action
which is based on this description is unpredictable.
But no matter; all that is required is
that the program provide a focus of communal action.
However deliberately targeted,
the consequence or outcome of that communal effort
can never be accurately predicted.
All this not by way of criticism, but as explanation.

My task is to integrate your account of communal action into
my view of individual experience and individual action.
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Doesn't the survival of the human race to this point
validate the the division of function (labor) between the sexes;
and isn't tinkering with this division of function threaten
its survival. Doesn't there need to be a biological justification
for a valid (sustainable) evolutionary change? This is obviously
the ultra-conservative argument. (Whatever is is right)
Not at all congenial to me, who is always looking for a breath of
fresh air.

With the right to military service comes thes potential obligation for
military service: the draft of women.
You contradict yourself when you say a) that women are abused,
and b) that injuries to women are socially more telling.
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both individual experience (action) and social experience (action)'
are subject to limitations, and so is the account I (we) are able to
give of them.
The issue of community vs individuality is far more complex,
and far further from resolution than one might imagine.
In fact, it's insoluble.
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Why is feminism not to be denominated anti-masculinism.
Is there any facet of feminism which is not anti-masculine,
which does not seek the benefit or advantage of women over men?
How does anti-masculimsim then to be distinguished from
anti-semitism.