Feminists

My ex-wife and I came to Chapel Hill in 1966 as undergrads, were part of most of the movements and causes that define the 60's.

The women's issues initially on removing onerous rules that required women students be in their dorm rooms weeknights 8-10:30 for closed study, required they wear skirts or dresses on main campus and prohibited pants and shorts.

By 1968-69, the women's movement was dividing into factions that looked and sounded like those in the Black communities. While there were a lot more liberal feminists, the radical feminist were much more vocal, more visible, and more often covered in the press. When they spoke at UNC, anything provocative or extreme they said would be reported by Jesse Helms as the latest liberal outrage, a TP for the RW likely still being used even now.

The radical feminism at that time locally seems to have combined the muddled quasi-Marxist views ( a la Yale and Bennington) that equate marriage and slavery, with men oppressing women, etc. with the lesbian feminist claims that sex is something men do to women, a sexual assault. This gets close to the all men are rapist line in The Womens Room.

Within a few years, nearly all the feminist activists were from one segment of the lesbian community. In grad school, my wife had run ins with several of these activists who had critized how she looked and dressed, and about other things. If you shaved your legs or wore makeup, you weren't welcome, even if you were a lesbian.

Not sure they hated men, but certain they disliked men. They seemed to dislike most everyone else: women who had sex with men, gay men, bi, TS, TV, other lesbians. For years, many remained openly hostile to the local gay groups, refusing to work together on common issues. Things are much different now. You still see some of these type of feminist theory, mostly in academic circles.