Feminists

I have described it in another thread and posted references.

Pretty much word for word, what I was told when I explored joining the women's group on campus was, "If you are sleeping with men, you are sleeping with the enemy, and you are not welcome." That sentiment is reflected in the references I have posted.

The line between hate and separatism is not always crisp - but describing men as the enemy, which I routinely heard from some very vocal feminists in that era - is certainly bumping into that line.

No - it was not all feminists, or even most, but just like the gay men who were less able to pass helped create Stonewall - a major turning point in the gay movement - we owe it to these separatist feminists who threw themselves wholeheartedly into the movement not to write them out of our history books.

History is not always comfortable, but we do a disservice to deny that some of those who made us uncomfortable also moved us forward in a way that those who had more to lose by taking risks could not.