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Items in this update:
o Secret paternity test
o The rights of the unborn?
o The 'abortion pill' is hard to find
o Experts question new rape stats
o Religious leaders say aborting girls is wrong
o Supreme Court refuses appeal for affirmative action
o Blind man arrested for hearing child porn
o Raging against self defense
o Wade Horn will be confirmed despite NOW's objections
o The mommy tax
o Crude jokes cause gender war at Dartmouth
o Guardian Angel's
o Paypal discriminates against gun owners
o Hunger strike for Quebec fathers
o June issue of Ex Femina
o Women of Srebrenica
o Women & Guns discussion list
Hello ifeminists:
An interesting question has arisen. For some time now,
I've been aware of a site called Battered Woman
<http://www.batteredwoman.com/> that openly advocates beating
women (much as the Wife Beaters site does. Ifeminists.com has
the honor of being listed on its "enemy" page. Another feminist
group has asked us to join in a petition drive against the site.
<http://www.petitiononline.com/bw2001/petition.html/> I have
great reservations but -- after stating them -- I'll leave it
to everyone of you to decide. 1) the site seems to be a parody,
2) freedom of speech is freedom of speech, 3) why give it the
publicity it obviously seeks? Having said this, there is no harm
in writing (through a petition) to the site owner to register
your protest since the petition does not call for censorship.
Use your own judgment.
This just in ... On June 18, 2001, Women.com Networks, Inc.
was acquired by iVillage Inc. making Women.com a wholly owned
subsidiary of iVillage. This also makes it the largest online
community of women. As the scramble to survive the dotcom shake-out
continues, women's sites are moving in what I think is the the
wrong direction: big (seemingly for the sake of bigness).
Ifeminists.com continues to grow, and at a fair clip, but we
intend to keep a "small town" feel to our community. We want to
focus on the political niche that defines us, listen to what
readers have to say, and encourage personal contacts through
the BB and e-mail list.
Last week I announced an article on the retirement of
Patricia Ireland from NOW but that piece will be postponed
by request from another site. Instead, I have posted an excerpt
from "Sexual Correctness," which recently came out in paperback.
The essay is entitled "The New Mythology of Rape."
Now ... onto the main event.
Cheers,
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Secret paternity test
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The German company Papacheck is offering a quick and easy
mail-order paternity test that can be carried out in
secret by either parent without the other's knowledge.
The test, which can be carried out on a few strands of hair,
has been in hot demand since it was advertised on the
internet. (06/24/01)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000143789351982&rtmo=VrVJVwkK&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/et/01/6/24/wdna24.html
The rights of the unborn?
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Brenda Peppers is one of about 200 women in 30 states who
have been prosecuted in recent years for fetal abuse.
Peppers trial comes in the wake Regina McKnight's
conviction which made her the first woman in the United
States to be convicted of homicide for killing a fetus
through drug use. (06/24/01)
http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/us/DailyNews/fetal010625.html
The 'abortion pill' is hard to find
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Nearly nine months after the FDA approved RU-486, most
doctors still aren't offering it to patients because
of personal conviction, fear of protests and the
complexities of administering the drug. (06/22/01)
http://msnbc.com/news/589666.asp
Experts question new rape stats
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"New government crime statistics showed the number of rapes
dropped by a third last year, from 141,070 in 1999 to 92,440
in 2000. But many women's advocates and criminologists don't
trust the numbers or the reporting methods." (06/25/01)
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/587
Religious leaders say aborting girls is wrong
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"India's top religious leaders met in New Delhi on Sunday
to make a passionate plea to end a growing trend of
aborting female fetuses .... A 2001 census showed the
country of 1.027 billion people had only 933 females
for every 1,000 males, down from 972 in 1991." (06/24/01)
http://www.WorldNetDaily.com/frame/direct.asp?SITE=sg.news.yahoo.com/010624/3/15mbr.html
Supreme Court refuses appeal for affirmative action
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"The Supreme Court remained silent Monday on race-conscious
admissions policies in higher education, refusing to
hear Texas' challenge to a ruling that its law school
affirmative action program discriminated against
whites." (06/25/01)
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010625/pl/scotus_affirmative_action_6.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Blind man arrested for hearing child porn
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The case of a blind man being charged with hearing porn
raises interesting questions: "Are all senses banned
from experiencing child porn? If it were bottled, could
he smell it? What if he heard something that perfectly
resembled child pornography, but was in fact generated
by a computer?" (06/26/01)
http://www.salon.com/sex/world/2001/06/26/blind/index.html
Raging against self defense
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Subtitled "A Psychiatrist Examines The Anti-Gun Mentality,"
this commentary by Sarah Thompson, M.D. examines the pathology
behind the victim disarmament mentality. (06/15/01)
http://www.jpfo.org/alert20010615.htm
Wade Horn will be confirmed despite NOW's objections
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by Kathryn Jean Lopez
"Despite feminist wails, National Fatherhood Initiative
founder Wade Horn sailed through his confirmation
hearing yesterday for assistant secretary of health
and human services for family support." (06/22/01)
http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment062201a.shtml
The mommy tax
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by Cathy Young
Young reviews the much lauded book "The Price of
Motherhood: Why Motherhood Is the Most Important
-- And Least Valued -- Job in America," by Ann
Crittenden. She concludes, what Crittenden "proposes
is entitlement masquerading as rights." (06/01/01)
http://www.reason.com/0106/co.cy.the.html
Crude jokes cause gender war at Dartmouth
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by Kathleen Reeder
Digging through the trash of a frat house, feminist
students discovered the shredded remains of a single-page,
intra-fraternity newsletter called the 'Zetemouth.'
Because of its crude remarks, the frat in question has
been under attack ... literally. (06/24/01)
http://www.shethinks.org/articles/an00032.cfm
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Online Resource Directories <==
Guardian Angel's
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A woman friendly site that allows you to explore webrings
and articles that support the Second Amendment.
jcpatton@mail.airmail.net
http://web2.airmail.net/jcpatton/
For more Online Resource Directories see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/homepages/
==> Action Opportunities <==
Paypal discriminates against gun owners
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PayPal is a system for transferring funds online to prevent
the "theft" of credit card numbers. Now it refuses to deal
with orders connected to guns or to gun-related merchandise.
Protest by canceling your account.
https://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=2141
Hunger strike for Quebec fathers
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August 24, 2001
Gordon Sawyer is a Canadian journalist who is currently
on a hunger strike since May 21st 2001 to denounce the
violation of human and civil rights by the government
of Quebec on the issue of the fathers in need, and the
negative influence that feminist groups have on various
Quebec institutions. Write or call to protest.
http://quebecfathersrights.org/
For more Action Opportunities see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/actions/
==> Magazines and Periodic Columns <==
June issue of Ex Femina
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August 1, 2001
This -- the latest issue -- of IWF's online newsletter
includes, "IWF Takes Back the Campus," "What Harvard
Doesn't Teach," and "The Wage Gap Is a Myth."
http://www.iwf.org/pubs/exfemina/index.shtml
For more Magazines and Periodic Columns see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/magazines/
==> Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs <==
Women of Srebrenica
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The purpose of this web site is to aid women in searching
for more than 10,000 relatives and friends who are still
missing in the huge massacre committed by the Bosnian
Serb army on July 11, 1995, in Srebrenica, Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
http://www.srebrenica.org/english/default.htm
For more Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/organizations/
==> Online Discussions and E-Mail Lists <==
Women & Guns discussion list
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A friendly forum for those who wish to discuss gun
ownership and compare notes on political/personal
matters to do with guns in our culture.
http://talk.shooters.com/room_69/topics.cfm
For more Online Discussions and E-Mail Lists see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/discussions/
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