Green Thursday, radio program, February 20, 1975, source recording

  • ELAINE NOBLE: "The laws really don't concern you anyway."
  • And I'm just picking out examples,
  • and you must understand why women, after ten or twelve
  • years said, we must look for allies and friends.
  • And many of us got involved in the feminist perspective.
  • And it's through the women's movement
  • that we use the word sexism.
  • I don't want you to get nervous with this,
  • because I'm assuming that most of us
  • are mature people in this room.
  • We're having a mature relationship,
  • sending and receiving.
  • And what I'm trying to say is that, that very thing
  • that you'll hear being tossed around the room a lot
  • in the next few days sexism is an idea
  • of people looking at someone as an object
  • and not as a human being.
  • And a person who is sexist, if we're
  • saying that let's say a male is sexist, or a male person
  • is sexist--
  • (end of recording)