|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
=====> ifeminists.com insiderUpdate =============================
-----------------------------------------------------------------
To sub or unsub: http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/lists/
Items in this update:
o Million Mom March to merge
o South Carolina tests the bounds of a fetus's rights
o Surgeon General pushes better sex ed, tolerance
o Bloc Quebecois committee urges legal sex trade
o Does the Virginia Military Institute encourage abortions?
o Reversible male contraception
o Feminist calls for new Anita Hill hearing
o Islamic husbands can divorce wives by phone message
o Anti-abortion terrorist is stalking clinics
o Louisiana's abortion liability law lands in court
o Gays and lesbians persecuted worldwide
o What is reproductive freedom?
o The UN gay threat to the First Amendment?
o A new feminist view of motherhood
o Moms defend baby killing
o Bashing Boys
o Don't make fun of feminists!
o Dora Marsden, the Stirnerite of feminism
o Protest K-mart's anti-gun stance
o iAbolish: the anti-slavery portal
o Stay at home dads
o Chicago Second Amendment Sisters
o Emergency contraception online
Hello ifeminists:
I am delighted to point you in the direction of "Brain Drain" -- a
free online short story by the SF rising star, Fran Van Cleave ... who also
subscribes to the InsiderUpdate.
<http://www.doingfreedom.com/gen/0601/fa.braindrain.html> You go girl!
Vera Fallon of the Gender Issues Research Center wants ifeminists to
know that her site <http://www.gendercenter.org> has been updated.
Personally, I have Vera's page bookmarked and visit it about once a month
because she is so diligent about expanding her content.
The latest editorial, "Murder: A New Feminist View of Motherhood," is
posted on the ifeminist homepage and also available through FOX News at the
URL listed below. Nothing has appalled me as much in recent memory as the
reaction of the media and feminists to the cold-blooded murder of her five
children by Andrea Yates. This, on the heels of what seems to be
confirmation that the abortion ship was a PR stunt. (Check out the National
Review's take.)
<http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-wills062601.shtml> I am
waiting to hear from the other side, from Women on Waves, before coming to
a final conclusion on what appears to be an ill-advised hoax.
Now...onto the main event!
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Million Mom March to merge
----------
The Brady Campaign, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun
Violence, and the Million Mom March are officially
merging on Oct. 1. The Million Mom March will be known
as the "Million Mom March, United with the Brady
Campaign and the Brady Center." Or MMMUWTBCATBC. It
trips off the tongue.
(06/28/01)
http://www.WorldNetDaily.com/frame/direct.asp?SITE=dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/
20010628/ts/life_guns_merger_dc_1.html
South Carolina tests the bounds of a fetus's rights
----------
Brenda Kay Peppers was arrested for child abuse two years
ago after giving birth to a stillborn baby with cocaine
in its bloodstream. Now, the case is beginning to play
out as a definitive struggle to determine what, if any,
rights the unborn have. (06/28/01)
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/06/28/fp1s1-csm.shtml
Surgeon General pushes better sex ed, tolerance
----------
Surgeon General David Satcher yesterday urged parents and
teachers to provide children with a thorough sex
education that promotes abstinence but also permits
distribution of contraception in schools. He also asserted that
homosexuality is not a reversible lifestyle choice and
that committed, "mutually monogamous" relationships are
an acceptable alternative to marriage. (06/29/01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61206-2001Jun28.html
Bloc Quebecois committee urges legal sex trade
----------
A committee of the nationalist Bloc Quebecois political
party in Canada wants street prostitution decriminalized
and red-light districts set up for prostitutes. It
recommends a five-year trial period for legalization,
after which the experiment would be evaluated.
(07/02/01)
http://www.southam.com/calgaryherald/newsnow/cpfs/national/010701/n070138.html
Does the Virginia Military Institute encourage abortions?
----------
"Pregnant Virginia Military Institute cadets would have to
quit school or face expulsion under a policy VMI is
developing in the wake of its first pregnant cadet. One
critic said the policy would be unconstitutional,
discriminatory and might even encourage abortion."
(06/30/01)
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story114112.html
Reversible male contraception
----------
"Health Canada has given approval for the first human
clinical trials of a reversible male contraceptive
implant, a device believed to be as effective as
vasectomies for men or birth control pills for women."
The implication for paternity cases are immense.
(06/28/01)
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010628/603984.html
Feminist calls for new Anita Hill hearing
----------
Former NOW President Eleanor Smeal, who criticized Juanita
Broaddrick's claim that Bill Clinton raped her, said she
wants new congressional hearings into Anita Hill's
charges that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas read
pornography and talked dirty to her. (06/29/01)
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/6/29/112328
Islamic husbands can divorce wives by phone message
----------
"Husbands in the Gulf emirate of Dubai can now use mobile
phone text messages to divorce their wives." Now they
can say "I divorce you" three times with the assistance
of technology. (06/27/01)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000143789351982&rtmo=fwfqovws&atmo=rrrrrrrq
&pg=/et/01/6/27/wdiv27.html
Anti-abortion terrorist is stalking clinics
----------
"Self-avowed antiabortion terrorist Clayton Waagner is a
fugitive, but by posting a pledge to kill abortion
providers, he may have given the feds just what they
need to catch him." (06/27/01)
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/06/27/waagner/index.html
Louisiana's abortion liability law lands in court
----------
Louisiana's unique law letting women sue a doctor up to 10
years after an abortion for alleged damage to themselves
or to the aborted fetus will be argued in state court.
The measure has been blocked from taking effect since
passage in 1997. (07/02/01)
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/408504_laabort_02tex..html
Gays and lesbians persecuted worldwide
----------
"Persecution based on sexual orientation is grounds for
U.S. political asylum, but most gay people don't know
it. And a new human rights report documents abuse and
torture of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender
people worldwide." (06/28/01)
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/596
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
What is reproductive freedom?
----------
by Dorothy Roberts
A lecture delivered by Roberts at a Public Forum presented
by the Othmer Institute at Planned Parenthood of New
York City. She begins by asking "What is the meaning of
reproductive freedom?" and provides a coherent answer.
(07/01)
http://www.ppnyc.org/facts/facts/race.html
The UN gay threat to the First Amendment?
----------
by Mary Jo Anderson
"Homosexual activism is advancing on a number of fronts at
the United Nations these days, including a call by one
group to prohibit the media from publishing
"discriminatory" content -– which critics are calling an
outright attack on the First Amendment right to a free
press." (06/28/01)
http://www.WorldNetDaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23422
A new feminist view of motherhood
----------
by Wendy McElroy
Andrea Pia Yates —- the Houston woman who drowned her
five children -— has prompted stunned and public
discussion of how a mother could possibly kill her own offspring.
It has also inspired a particularly vicious new feminist
line of reasoning: murder as a natural part of
motherhood. (07/03/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,28668,00.html
Moms defend baby killing
----------
by Mark Steyn
In rushing to defend Andrea Yates, the mother who killed
her five children, moms/psychobabblers/feminists are
normalizing infanticide by treating it in a
compassionate manner that trivializes the brutal,
methodical deaths of innocents. (06/30/01)
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?issue=2001-06-30&id=845
Bashing Boys
----------
by Wendy McElroy
Behind the attacks on boyhood: sketchy science and extreme
politics. We now know a 1997 study — instrumental in
embedding PC feminist politics into children's education
— for what it truly was and is: a farce. (06/28/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,28098,00.html
Don't make fun of feminists!
----------
by Gail Jarvis
In a story of PC sensibilities run amok, feminists are
arguing with female House pages over their choice of
clothing and trying to track down the culprit who wrote
a satirical memo. (06/27/01)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/jarvis2.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Introductions and FAQs <==
Dora Marsden, the Stirnerite of feminism
----------
by Bernd A. Laska
A biographical sketch of individualist Dora Marsden
(1882-1960), the editor of some avant-garde literary
journals (1911-1919; Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot,
D.H.Lawrence, James Joyce made their debuts in these) as
well as an author with philosophical ambitions. She is
being rediscovered of late, sometimes as "The Stirner of
Feminism."
http://www.lsr-projekt.de/poly/enmarsden.html
For more Introductions and FAQs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/brief/
==> Action Opportunities <==
Protest K-mart's anti-gun stance
----------
Tell K-Mart what you think of their new policy. A 10-minute
FREE phone call could make the difference. Just dial
1-800-247-0200 (press 1 after being connected) and
politely ask for clarification on their "no ammunition"
policy. Follow up with a statement that you've been a
K-Mart customer, but will no longer be one unless the
policy is immediately changed.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010628/ts/kmart_guns_10.html
For more Action Opportunities see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/actions/
==> Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs <==
iAbolish: the anti-slavery portal
----------
In 2001, chattel slavery still exists and is thriving in
areas such as the Sudan. Women and girls are among the
slaves sold, often as private sexual toys. Acquaint
yourself with this atrocity.
http://www.iabolish.com/
Stay at home dads
----------
Online resource, reference and network for Stay At Home
Dads (SAHD) and their families.
http://www.slowlane.com/
Chicago Second Amendment Sisters
----------
"Mayor Daley has armed guards but he thinks citizens
shouldn't have the right to defend themselves. City of
Chicago Alderman are allowed to carry concealed
handguns, but citizens are not? Self-defense is your right."
Find out more at this new site.
moregunslesscrime@saschicago.org
http://www.saschicago.org/
For more Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/organizations/
==> Merchandise and Book Catalogs <==
Emergency contraception online
----------
Get caught up in the heat of passion? Get emergency
contraception online in the Chicago area. The easy,
online assessment ensures maximum privacy and a safe
trip to the pharmacy within a couple of hours. Also
available over the phone, Chicago Planned Parenthood is
one of the few groups to offer this service online.
info@ppca.org
http://www.ec4u.org/
For more Merchandise and Book Catalogs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/catalogs/
-----------------------------------------------------------------
If you appreciate ifeminists.com, please help support it.
Each Supporting Member enables us to reach hundreds of other
people. Please make a contribution to The Henry Hazlitt Foundation
now. See to donate
with a credit card, call us at (312) 494-9440 or email us at
<info@free-market.net>, or send a check or money order to The Henry
Hazlitt Foundation, 401 N. Franklin St., Suite 3E, Chicago, IL 60610.
As a 501(c)3 non-profit, contributions to HHF are tax-deductible.
Thank you!
-- Wendy McElroy, editor <mac@ifeminists.com
-- Louis James, publisher <ljames@free-market.net>
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------
=====/ end of ifeminists.com insiderUpdate \=====================
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Please forward and copy freely, and include the following message:
If you have any questions, comments, or material to contribute,
email list editor Wendy McElroy <mac@ifeminists.com>.
The insiderUpdate is a service of ifeminists.com, the portal
for 21st century feminism <http://www.ifeminists.com/> and produced
by The Henry Hazlitt Foundation as part of Free-Market.Net's Freedom
Network <http://www.free-market.net/>.
To be removed (unsubscribed) or added (subscribed) to this email
list, click to: http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/lists/
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Visit my home page at <http://www.zetetics.com/mac>
and drop by <http://www.ifeminists.com>
In December 2004 this page was modified significantly from its original form for archiving purposes.
, founded in 1995, is now a part of ISIL.
 |