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Feminist is older, 'more radical"
United Press International
NEW YORK — Gloria Steinem
doesn’t fidget.
She can sit quietly through a fusil
lade of sharply pointed questions (as
well as some well-intentioned but
somewhat chauvinistic ones) and re
spond with unnerving calmness.
Steinem, 45 now, has experienced
nearly every inquiry as a leader of
the feminist movement for 20 years.
But, she hasn’t “mellowed out” nor
subdued. That’s not the way femin
ism operates.
“The women’s movement works
the other way around from other
political, social movements — you
get more radical as you get older,”
Steinem said recently in an inter
view in New York.
Steinem was making the rounds
publicizing Ms. magazine’s new
book, “The Decade of Women: A
Ms. History of the Seventies in
Words and Pictures,” published by
Putnam and Paragon. A chronology
of the women’s movement, the book
contains a long introduction by
Steinem, the editor and founder of
Ms. magazine.
She looks like a young fine arts
teacher at a Seven Sister school -
theatrically thin, wearing brown fur
ry boots, black corduroy slacks, and a
black turtleneck sweater and has
large even white teeth and long
blonde hair.
Have her obvious good looks
helped her become the most recog
nized feminist of the decade?
“No. My physical appearance
hasn’t helped me in the movement,
Steinem said.
“The problem all women have is
we are judged by our skins — the
way we look. I look forward to being
old. Then I’ll be taken seriously. I
know that’s crazy — to wish away
your life,” she said.
Steinem said there are two alter
natives worse than Carter’s plan to
register men and women for the
armed services.
“One would be to draft only men.
That would be preparing for war and
perpetuating discrimination. The
second would be to ask a draft for
both men and women,” she said.
“The idea we would have a draft
without ERA (Equal Rights Amend
ment) is really offensive. It assures
that the policy of no women in deci-
sion-maldng positions in the military
will continue,” she said.
Steinem responded to the much-
publicized blast from the Times of
London which has decided to ban
the title Ms. in its newspaper.
“It’s comforting to have a critic
that’s wrong about everything. The
English gave us Ms. The unabridged
Oxford English Dictionary lists Ms.
as far back as the 17th century. I
thought the Times of London people
would know that,” she said.
Then she stopped talking for a mo
ment.
“Progress lies in the direction we
haven’t been,” she said.
The sentence seemed to hang in
the air, and for the first time during
the hour, Gloria Steinem moved.
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