Thomas

                              P.O. Box 27217
                          Washington, D.C.  20038
                              (202) 462-0757
                                             November 1, 1991
Rus Funk
P.O. Box 73550
Washington D.C.  20056

Dear Rus,

     Thanks for your conscientious reply.  I believe it has been
helpful in better understanding your point of view.

     Now understand something about "womyn."  Personally, I'd
long discarded any notion that "man is the root of wo-man (or,
... 'womb-man')."  Which might be why I had some problem making
the link.  Fortunately I've already cleared that hurdle, due to
pressing demands for my time and energy on the streets, reading
the works of Mary Daly, Phyllis Chesler, and others is not high
on my priority.

     Certainly, I would like to understand those folks too, but
I'm not corresponding with them.  So my immediate question was to
you: "Assuming divisions is antithetical to peace, mightn't it be
counterproductive for peace activists to foster the impression of
separation between humyns?"

     You characterize yourself as "a staunch separatist () and,
rather than being divisionary, [you] find it remarkably healing
and necessary...."  I find this a tad confusing.  In simple
language I understand you to be saying that a "separatist" is not
a "divisionary."  It seems clear to me that division is to
separation, as the pause between wars is to peace.

     Observing that you have a "standard practice with writing
for publication," and are in "the midst of a speaking tour." I
assume that you are disseminating your perceptions of "Peaceful &
Loving Struggle,"  for the purpose of attracting (as opposed to
repelling) others to your ideas for remarkable healing.
     
     The next question in perfecting my understanding of your
ideas is: In order for one to subscribe to your ideas, would it
be accurate to surmise, as your letter seems to suggest, that a
person must separate themself from "whites, men, and
heterosexuals?"  

     If the answer is "yes," you needn't reply, I will file our
correspondence for resumption if or when that idea begins to make
sense.  If the answer is "no," what is the alternative?

                          For Unity and Harmony,