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For femmes, that evolving feminist thought reacquainted us with something we kind of knew already: men and women might mistake us for __ust girls_ when they see our makeup and fashions, but we were/are actually guerrilla warriors, fighting undercover in the war to save women from the continuing campaign to make us irrelevant fluff.
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For femmes, that evolving feminist thought reacquainted us with something we kind of knew already: men and women might mistake us for __ust girls_ when they see our makeup and fashions, but we were/are actually guerrilla warriors, fighting undercover in the war to save women from the continuing campaign to make us irrelevant fluff.

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