Talk:Robin Morgan

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[edit] Intro paragraph

As far as I know, Morgan did not come out as a lesbian in the 60's. For most of the decade she was married to a man, Kenneth Pitchford, and had a son in 1968 or 1969. I'm not sure that she ever "came out" as a lesbian in the traditional sense, though she did divorce Pitchford in the early 80's and has openly discussed her relationships with women in the intervening 25 years or so. She may, in the early 70's, have expressed solidarity with the burgeoning lesbian feminist movement, but to my knowledge (backed up by her memoir), she did not come out as a lesbian in the 60's. I'm removing that sentence from the introductory paragraph. GeekSquad geeksquad 15:33, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

"Gender feminist" is not, as far as I know, a term that Robin Morgan has ever applied to herself. Not surprisingly, since "gender feminism" is a name invented by Christina Hoff Sommers in order to criticize many different feminists who do not clearly have anything in common at all.

• Radical* feminism is a coherent tradition of thought and practice, which Robin Morgan identified with. "Gender feminism" is not; it is someone else's category, and was invented for no purpose other than criticism. Inserting this alien category into her description strikes me as distinctly POV.

I've revised the opening paragraph accordingly, along with a little bit more information about Morgan's career. Radgeek 04:29, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)