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Items in this update:
o Cell phone porn is the new thing
o Belgium authorizes free sale of morning-after pill
o Online emergency contraception available
o Journalists or terrorists?
o Gentlemen prefer dead blondes
o Torching free speech
o The mommy wars
o Reaction to Ten Feminists Myths continues
o Lili, a Novel of Tiananmen -- book review
o Feminists for taxes
o HomeWorkingMom.com
o Affirmative action index
o The Commercial Sex Information Service
o Tom Green, polygamist, crime or individual right?
o Librarians squeamish on First Amendment
o Protest small arms destruction day
o Protest State Farm's anti-gun policy
o Look and feel
o Prone to Violence
o The Activists Handbook
Hello ifeminists:
Some of you will remember Dagny Sharon's big-hearted appeal to
ifeminists on behalf of orphans on her island of Barbados. Now Dagny
writes, "Thanks to everyone who sent boxes of clothes, toys, and especially
books to our children's homes. I actually got phone calls and a letter of
thanks! More importantly, one of the local newspapers has agreed to support
my 'No More Orphans' project." Only 70 adoptable children remain, meaning
that Barbados could become a country without orphans. Thanks Dagny.
Dagny@FreedomWorld.org.
Jim Thornton has paid ifeminists.com the sincere flattery of
imitating our name. His free market environmental site is iGreens and it is
well worth a look. <http://www.igreens.org.uk>
The ifeminist editorial this week is "Second-Hand Harassment" and
warns of a possible expansion of the definition of sexual harassment in the
wake of a recent EEOC determination.
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,26377,00.html> While you
are checking it out, introduce yourself to Mary Lou Gutscher, the
ifeminist-of-the-month for June, whose face will be smiling back at you.
The new moderated e-mail list, Healing the Breach, is off to a
running start, with over 40 members already and a bustling discussion on
what men and women want from each other. Sign up at
<http://www.ifeminists.com>. If you don't want to deal with a lot of
traffic from the list, write a note to me requesting that e-mails be
delivered in "digest" form.
Now...onto the main event...
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Cell phone porn is the new thing
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"Get ready for 'mobile porn. Big-league adult content
companies are getting into the 'm' business. They're
ready to sell pornographic movies, magazines and
real-time interactivity on people's PDAs, cellphones and
wireless devices." Also get ready for anti-porn laws to
scramble to keep with technology. (06/04/01)
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/04/handheld_pr0n/index.html
Belgium authorizes free sale of morning-after pill
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On June 10th, Belgium will make the morning-after abortion
pill available without prescription "in a bid to stem
the rising number of abortions among women under 20."
Belgium becomes the second country (Britain is the
first) to take such a step. (05/31/01)
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010531/sc/health_morningafter_dc_1.html
Online emergency contraception available
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"Two innovative Planned Parenthood affiliates are to offer
on-line medical assessments for emergency contraceptive
pill (ECP) prescriptions." (05/24/01)
http://ippfnet.ippf.org/pub/IPPF_News/News_Details.asp?ID=1106
Journalists or terrorists?
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"The antiabortion Nuremberg Files, notorious for ... its hit
list' of abortion providers, now plans to broadcast
abortion providers and patients over the Web." In the wake of
anti-abortion violence and given that the site advocates
"punishing" the patients, concerns have been raised
about whether the broadcasting constitutes a threat of
violence. (05/31/01)
http://www.salon.com:80/news/feature/2001/05/31/nuremberg/index.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Gentlemen prefer dead blondes
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by Joan Smith
In musing about Marilyn Monroe and the feminist "victim
culture," Smith concludes, "we live in an
anti-intellectual age. I can't think of a better example
than this peculiar habit of disinterring dead blondes
and signing them up to the cause." (06/02/01)
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/joan_smith/story.jsp?st
ory=75908
Torching free speech
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by Nat Henthoff
The Student Press Law Center has cited 205 thefts and
occasional burnings of student newspaper on campuses
across the US since it started compiling a list in 1993.
Rather than argue with unPC papers, students just steal
and burn views that offend them. (05/23/01)
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0123/hentoff.shtml
The mommy wars
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by Rich Lowry
Lowry observes, "Speaking out in favor of stay-at-home moms
in our elite media is a little like wearing a Red Sox
hat at Yankee Stadium." The editor comments on the
fall-out from his defense of domestic women. (06/01/01)
http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry060101.shtml
Reaction to Ten Feminists Myths continues
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by John Leo
The Independent Women's Forum is the first imitator of
David Horowitz's infamous anti-PC ad attacking the idea
of slave reparations. Focusing on feminist myths, the
IWF ad is continuing to show up PC intolerance on campus
and stir debate. (06/04/01)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010604/opinion/4john.htm
Lili, a Novel of Tiananmen -- book review
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by Cynthia Grenier
Grenier gives a positive nod to Annie Wang's first novel in
English, which chronicles the girlhood of Lili under a
totalitarian Chinese regime. At one point, Lili is
thrown in jail on charges of having a "corrupt
lifestyle" and sentenced to rehabilitation. (06/02/01)
http://www.WorldNetDaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23066
Feminists for taxes
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by Karen De Coster
NOW president Patricia Ireland laments the fact that Bush's
budget does not include "enough" tax money for women and
families. (05/31/01)
http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?record=692&month=32
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Events <==
Tom Green, polygamist, crime or individual right?
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June 6, 2001
Green "was the first person to go on trial in Utah, in more
than 50-years, for Polygamy. Tom Green was found guilty
on May 18th, of four counts of bigamy...He is presently
free on bail until his sentencing June 27." He is the
guest on IRCPolitics this Wednesday at 10 p.m. EST.
http://www.ircpolitics.org/
For more Events see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/events/
==> Scholarly and In-Depth Studies <==
Librarians squeamish on First Amendment
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by Eugene Volokh
"Workplace harassment law, the nation's number-one form of
speech code, has taken yet another step toward
controlling what we may read and say. Libraries, the
federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has just
ruled, may be breaking the law if they dare to give
adult patrons complete and unfiltered Internet access."
(06/04/01)
http://www.reason.com/hod/ev060401.html
For more Scholarly and In-Depth Studies see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/in-depth/
==> Action Opportunities <==
Protest small arms destruction day
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July 9, 2001
Libertarian activist Carlos Stagnaro (Italy) requests that
pro-gun advocates sign his guest book and link to it as
a protest against the impending "Small Arms Destruction
Day." He wishes to send the book to the UN in protest.
http://web.tiscali.it/stagnaro/smallarms.htm
Protest State Farm's anti-gun policy
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"GrassRoots South Carolina urges all policy holders with
State Farm to contact State Farm and voice complaints
regarding their decision to cancel policies based on
discrimination of lawful use of firearms when there are
no statistics to show increased risk." Contact info is
provided.
http://www.scfirearms.org/garya.htm
For more Action Opportunities see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/actions/
==> Online Resource Directories <==
HomeWorkingMom.com
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Great resource for mothers looking into working from home.
Info on dream jobs to work from home, starting your own
business, telecommuting, and more.
communicate@mhbn.com
http://www.homeworkingmom.com/
Affirmative action index
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A valuable resource directory for those who oppose
discrimation in the form of affirmative action laws and
policies. It includes the "Top 10 most stupid defences
of affirmative action."
http://www.leconsulting.com/arthurhu/index/afact.htm
The Commercial Sex Information Service
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"A clearinghouse of information about laws, sexual health,
commerce and culture as these topics relate to sex
work." The site receives no government funding and does
have links to explicitly sexual material for educational
purposes.
http://www.walnet.org/csis/
For more Online Resource Directories see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/homepages/
==> Online Books and Collections <==
Look and feel
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by Virginia Postrel
Virginia Postrel's "current project is a book called Look
and Feel, which will be published by HarperCollins. Due
at the end of this year, Look and Feel is about the
growing importance of aesthetics and its many
implications -- for economics, politics, culture, and
personal life. Although the book covers a lot more
territory, you can read some related articles at the
links" included at this page.
virginia@dynamist.com
http://www.dynamist.com/lookandfeel.html
Prone to Violence
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by Erin Pizzey
Free online book. Erin Pizzey founded the first refuge for
battered wives in 1971. Her influential book "Prone to
Violence" is representative of feminism in the 70's:
grassroots, empowering, community-oriented, not appeling
to government, but privately funded.
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~KBirks/gender/viol/ptv/ptv.htm
For more Online Books and Collections see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/e-texts/
==> Games, Surveys, and Tools <==
The Activists Handbook
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by Katya Komisaruk
Online guide. "This Activist Handbook is based on our
experiences with mass civil disobedience in a range of
locations. The government's reaction to civil resistance
varies, but one thing is sure: The more people who
participate and the more we use solidarity tactics, the
better we are treated."
http://www.lawcollective.org/library/ah/
For more Games, Surveys, and Tools see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/games/
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