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Items in this update:
o Judge orders man to cease premarital sex
o Ship to offer off-shore abortions
o Critics say politics distorts findings in sex harassment study
o Students taught to masturbate with fruit
o Wife is boss in new business model for couples
o Sex business restrictions under fire in Nevada
o Florida's ban on gay adoption faces tough test
o 3-D fetal images may influence abortion debate
o Women protestors 'morally raped' by U.S. Navy
o Diversity celebrated with compulsory luncheon
o Beware the bitches!
o The next wave of office politics: 'second-hand harassment'
o PC politics spreads AIDS
o Not in Front of the Children -- book review
o Tax-paid porn
o What are men's issues?
o Corporations that support victim disarmament
o Sex-Geek.Com
o The DesertLight Journal
o The story of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
o Women on Waves
o First battered woman granted asylum in U.S.
o Rate your risk of attack
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The ifeminist editorial, posted later today, is entitled "How to Ruin
a Man's Life" and chronicles a PC campus nightmare. Many thanks are due
Chuck Eimermann for permitting me run his "Abortion Conflict" article as
our first guest editorial (posted later today, as well).
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Those of an extropian frame of mind can meet the fetching and
ifeminist Natasha Vita-More this coming weekend at the Extropy Institute's
Extro-5 Conference in San Jose. <http://www.extropy.org/ex5/index.htm> Tell
her "mac" sent you. Then give the secret signal. (It's a wink and smile.) ;-)
I will be speaking on Individualist Feminism, pornography, and
prostitution on the weekend thereafter (June 22-24) at Marymount University
in Virginia for the Institute for Humane Studies. I hope some of you will
be there.
Remember Father's Day on June 17th!
Now ... onto the main event ...
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Judge orders man to cease premarital sex
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"Judge J. Manuel Banales of Texas, who made a name for
himself earlier this month after ordering registered sex
offenders to identify themselves with signs in their
yards, ruled that a 19-year-old probationer can't have
any more sex until he's married." (06/11/01)
http://www.salon.com/sex/world/2001/06/11/offenders/index.html
Ship to offer off-shore abortions
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A Dutch ship which aims to provide abortions to women
outside the territorial waters of countries where
pregnancies are only terminated in exceptional
circumstances will sail for Ireland this week on the
first leg of a voyage likely to whip up a storm of
protest. (06/11/01)
http://news.24.com/News24/Health/Health_News/0,1113,2-14-660_1037235,00.html
Critics say politics distorts findings in sex harassment study
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While a new study claims that a majority of children have
been sexually harassed in school, critics, including
Cathy Young and Christina Hoff Sommers, charge that the
study defines harassment too broadly and that political
considerations distort its findings. (06/06/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,26603,00.html
Students taught to masturbate with fruit
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Parents are "livid." High school students who signed up for
a 'Women in Art' course at the University of Winnipeg
received tax-paid instruction on how to masturbate with
fruits and vegetables so that they do not "require men."
Click on link. (06/05/01)
http://www.escape.ca/~scruples/uw/main.html
Wife is boss in new business model for couples
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"Men increasingly are joining their entrepreneur wives in
business and reporting to them. It's estimated that
twice as many men report to their higher-ranking wives
today as they did five years ago -- and their marriages
are notable for
their mutual respect." (06/05/01)
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/573/context/archive
Sex business restrictions under fire in Nevada
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A new ordinance that regulates sexually oriented businesses
in North Las Vegas drew criticism from the ACLU, which
argues that the First Amendment prohibits sexually
oriented bookstores and theaters from being subject to
privileged licenses. (06/06/01)
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Jun-07-Thu-2001/news/16270539.html
Florida's ban on gay adoption faces tough test
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A 1977 Florida law that prohibits adoption by any lesbian
or gay man is under fire from a man who wants to adopt a
9-year-old learning-disabled boy, and the boy's family,
who see the man as a good father. (06/05/01)
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/nation/stories/gayadopt_20010604.htm
3-D fetal images may influence abortion debate
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New 3-D imaging machines offer detailed pictures of
developing fetuses, including facial features, instead
of the blur offered by ultrasonic machines. By showing
the fetus in a more human light, technology may
influence the ongoing debate on abortion. (05/30/01)
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/newsatlanta/0530fetus.html
Women protestors 'morally raped' by U.S. Navy
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"Women protesting the U.S. Navy's firing range on Vieques,
Puerto Rico, testified last week that arrested women
demonstrators were subjected to humiliating body
searches, groping and ethnic slurs by Navy guards." The
Pentagon has not investigated the women's accusations.
(06/09/01)
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/577/context/outrage
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Diversity celebrated with compulsory luncheon
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"Black, white, Hispanic, Native American, Hmong --
regardless of your race, you all have something in
common: the threat of docked timecards if you did not
attend this luncheon." Warning. Humor. (06/06/01)
http://www.theonion.com/onion3721/diversity_celebrated.html
Beware the bitches!
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by Joelle Diderich
In France, "high-profile women face the type of criticism
that went out elsewhere with the sexual revolution of
the
1970s, derided as 'bitches' or accused of sleeping their
way to the top." Diderich reports on the French
macho/feminist cultural war. (06/05/01)
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010605/lf/france_feminists_dc_2.html
The next wave of office politics: 'second-hand harassment'
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by Wendy McElroy
Notions of government-regulated sexual harassment in the
workplace have been expanded to the point that simply
viewing an "offensive" image or reading an "offensive"
book may be classified as creating a "hostile work
environment." (06/05/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,26377,00.html
PC politics spreads AIDS
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by David Horowitz
Horowitz's article, "The Plague Abettors," marks the 20th
anniversary of the onset of the AIDS epidemic in America
by examining how PC politics caused proven methods of
containing disease to be replaced by ineffective
education programs. The result: AIDS is increasing once
more. (06/11/01)
http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/2001/06/11/aids/index.html
Not in Front of the Children -- book review
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by Charles Taylor, reviewer
Marjorie Heins's new book, "Not in Front of the Children:
'Indecency,' Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth,"
analyzes how society is being remade to "protect"
children from adult images and words. Taylor explores
the damage being done to cultural and sexual attitudes.
(06/11/01)
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/06/11/children/index.html
Tax-paid porn
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by Debbie Schussel
While some government officials try to ban porn, others
provide tax-funding. Take, for example, performance
artist Karen Finley who smears her naked body with
chocolate and inserting produce into her private parts.
The National
Endowment of the Arts provides her with grants.
(06/12/01)
http://www.WorldNetDaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23208
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Online Resource Directories <==
What are men's issues?
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by David R. Throop
"I am afraid that I am new to men's issues and have no idea
what these folks are talking about when they talk about
men's issues ..." Throop provides an overview with
valuable links.
http://www.vix.com/pub/men/history/accounts/throop5.html
For more Online Resource Directories see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/homepages/
==> Action Opportunities <==
Corporations that support victim disarmament
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Second Amendment Sisters provides a list, including email
contact info, of the most prominent national
corporations that have lent their corporate support to
gun control initiatives or have taken a public position
supporting gun control. Write to let then know how you
feel about that.
http://www.2asisters.org/anti/corporations.htm
For more Action Opportunities see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/actions/
==> Magazines and Periodic Columns <==
Sex-Geek.Com
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Personal website of a retired prostitute/writer. Very
pro-prostitution, pro-sex, and pro-freedom in all
respects. Columns and articles on all subjects, but
particularly -- surprise, surprise -- writing and sex.
Warning: adult content.
muse@sex-geek.com
http://www.sex-geek.com/
The DesertLight Journal
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Bi-weekly ezine focusing primarily on issues of domestic
violence against men, divorce/custody, and organizations
and people in the men's movement.
dsrtlite@mindspring.com
http://www.desertlightjournal.homestead.com/index.html
For more Magazines and Periodic Columns see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/magazines/
==> Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs <==
The story of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
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For twenty years, Mothers of the Plaza have publicly met to
protest the disappearance of their children, arrested by
the Argentine government, and to demand information. An
inspiring, grassroots movement.
http://www.madres.org/ingles/historia/textos/historia.htm
Women on Waves
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"The mission of the Women on Waves Foundation is to prevent
unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortions throughout the
world." WOW is developing and abortion clinic on board a
ship to provide offshore abortions to women from
countries where the procedure is illegal.
http://www.womenonwaves.org/index3.html
For more Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/organizations/
==> Bills, Laws, and Decisions <==
First battered woman granted asylum in U.S.
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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a 19 year-old
Mexican woman refugee status as a victim of domestic
violence. As a result, immigrant women living within the
9th Circuit jurisdiction (areas with high immigrant
populations including CA and AZ) will be able to seek asylum as
victims of domestic violence.
http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/web/newopinions.nsf/4bc2cbe0ce5be94e88256927007a
37b9/3225258aedf2fb7688256a1600650549?OpenDocument
For more Bills, Laws, and Decisions see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/laws/
==> Games, Surveys, and Tools <==
Rate your risk of attack
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Four tests designed to assess your risk factors as a
potential victim of violent crime.
http://www.telalink.net/~police/risk/
For more Games, Surveys, and Tools see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/games/
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