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Items in this update:
o EEOC drives another company out of business
o Court strikes down nude dancing ordinances
o Russian first wives agitate for 'rights'
o Prostitute killer in Iran is applauded
o Surrogate mother sues over abortion
o Rapist goes free
o White women and children flee mobs in Zimbabwe
o Ad for day-after pill challenged
o Cop pleads guilty to child porn
o Fake cop, fake hooker, real trouble
o 60-year-old Japanese woman gives birth
o More male sports at colleges fall to Title IX
o Book on how to identify violent women
o Why feminists support Condit
o Make a clone, go to jail
o A politically correct Joy of Sex
o Non-Coercion: Concept and Context
o Women risk all to expose Taliban
o The Myth of the deadbeat dad
o Stem cell research directory
o Women's figures show economic progress
o The Men's Hour
o Men's Hour archive
o Shopper cards for gun rights
Hello ifeminists:
The Bulletin Board is buzzing these days with lively (and generally
civil) debate. Hot threads include: Classical Liberalism on Same Sex
Marriage, and Open borders = the end of freedom? As you can tell, the
discussion ranges widely. Drop in and feel free to "lurk" until you are
comfortable in posting.
<http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/forum/feminism0108/index.html>
Last week's ifeminist editorial made it onto Rush Limbaugh's radio
talk show yesterday. The transcript of the segment is on his main page
today and should be available later on in the archive. This is fun!
<http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081301/content/stack_c.guest.ht
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August has cooled off up here in Ontario (at last!) and has become
brilliantly sunny in the wake of one of my favorite spectator events --
thunderstorms. Brad and I turned off all our ham radio gear and our
computers then went out on the deck to watch the lightning strike in a
panorama of flashes. I hope each of you is enjoying the last phase of
summer as we slide into fall.
Now...onto the main event...
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
EEOC drives another company out of business
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The EEOC has announced a $3.5 million dollar settlement
against a now defunct picture frame manufacturer for
sexual harassment and discrimination in employment
practices. (08/06/01)
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51197-2001Aug8.html
Court strikes down nude dancing ordinances
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that parts of a
Lakewood, Washington law imposing severe restrictions on
nude dancing are unconstitutional. It also said a city
task force that helped craft the ordinance illegally met
behind closed doors. (08/09/01)
http://www.sltrib.com/08092001/nation_w/120876.htm
Russian first wives agitate for 'rights'
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"After fighting off demands of the tax police, political
foes or business rivals, Russia's growing class of newly
rich oligarchs is facing a new threat: their first
wives" and their abandoned children. (08/08/01)
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=true&id=010808
001536
Prostitute killer in Iran is applauded
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In the last year, 21 women, who were either prostitutes or
drug users, have been murdered in the Iranian city of
Mashhad. Now a suspect has been arrested. He claims to
have killed prostitutes for the good of God and many
applaud him. (08/13/01)
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0437_BC_Ir
anProstitutes&&news&newsflash-international
Surrogate mother sues over abortion
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"A British woman acting as a surrogate mother for a
Californian couple has gone to court accusing them of
trying to change the terms of their agreement after they
discovered she was having twins." The couple asked her
to abort oneof the fetuses. (08/11/01)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=88203
Rapist goes free
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For the second time in the same trial, a judge has
overruled a Connecticut state statute to free on bond a
man whom he sentenced to 12 years in prison for rape.
The man may remain free for years pending his appeal.
(08/10/01)
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2203340&BRD=1641&PAG=461&dept_id=1
0109&rfi=6
White women and children flee mobs in Zimbabwe
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"President Robert Mugabe heaped more pressure on embattled
white Zimbabweans yesterday by forcing women and
children to flee his advancing mobs." In a clear land
grab, many of the white male farmers have been
imprisoned. The fleeing families leave behind land and
houses that can now be occupied by black Zimbabweans.
(08/13/01)
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/08/13/wzim13.xml
Ad for day-after pill challenged
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"Three Chicago residents are suing the National Abortion
Federation on charges that the organization has used
deceptive advertising on behalf of RU-486, known as the
'abortion pill.'" The ads did not mention side effects.
(08/08/01)
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010808-711379.htm
Cop pleads guilty to child porn
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"An FBI agent posing as a 13-year-old girl in Internet chat
room correspondence received a "hit" from what must have
seemed an unlikely suspect: a Charlotte County sheriff's
deputy." (08/11/01)
http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/081101/TP1CH2.HTM?date=081101&story=T
P1CH2.HTM
Fake cop, fake hooker, real trouble
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Trevor Blair Roszell was fined for impersonating a police
officer after he demanded free sex -- or at least a
price break -- from an undercover cop pretending to be a
prostitute. (08/10/01)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_371993.html?menu=news.quirkies
60-year-old Japanese woman gives birth
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A 60-year-old woman became Japan's oldest new mother after
undergoing in-vitro fertilization in the United States
because the procedure is difficult to obtain in her own
nation. (08/06/01)
http://www.salon.com/mwt/wire/2001/08/06/old_mother/index.html
More male sports at colleges fall to Title IX
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When UCLA cut costs, it dropped men's gymnastics even
though half of the gold medal team at the 1984 Olympics
had come from its gyms. In 1976, there were 138 men's
varsity college programs. Today, due to Title XI that
mandates "equal" numbers of female to male athletes,
there are 21. Males from poor families are losing their
scholarships.
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010807/14/gym-gymnastics-nationals
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Book on how to identify violent women
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by Elizabeth Judge
Erin Pizzy, the founder of Britain’s first refuge for
battered women, has a forthcoming book entitled "A
Terrorist Within the Family." Pizzy advises men on how
to avoid violent women. Approximately half of domestic
violence is initiated by women. (08/13/01)
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001280292,00.html
Why feminists support Condit
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by Wendy McElroy
"Commentators who yell 'hypocrisy!' at the feminist silence
over Gary Condit's adultery with Chandra Levy are
missing the point. Politically correct feminists have
always been silent about adultery ... except when it can
be used as a weapon of convenience." (08/07/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,31502,00.html
Make a clone, go to jail
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by Linda Rader
"Women's reproductive rights as well as the doctors who
treat them are the target of the anti-cloning bill that
just passed in the U.S. House of Representatives."
(08/01)
libfemmes@about.com
http://homepages.about.com/libfemmes/libfemmes22/id8.html
A politically correct Joy of Sex
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by Kevin Lowry
The Joy of Sex, written in the 1970s by Dr Alex Comfort,
has sold 12 million copies. Now the 4th edition is being
edited to conform to politically correct language.
"Girls" become "women" and unPC references -- for
example, the observation that Arab men prefer fatter
girls -- are omitted. (08/13/01)
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/uk.cfm?id=97598
Non-Coercion: Concept and Context
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by Thomas L. Knapp
"The only question remaining is whether Objectivists fail
to make common cause with libertarians through error --
or through evil. I have too much respect for too many
Objectivists to immediately assume the latter, but
decades of irrationality demand either correction or
repudiation." (Web version 08/10/01; previously
published in print edition of The Free Radical).
http://www.tlknapp.net/noncoercionframes.html
Women risk all to expose Taliban
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by Julia Scheeres
The members of RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of Women
of Afghanistan risk incarceration and worse to expose
atrocities of the Taliban, especially those committed
against women. Founded in 1977, RAWA has gained
international support since it launched a webside in
1997. (08/10/01)
http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45974,00.html
The Myth of the deadbeat dad
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by Suzy Hansen
Low-income single fathers are notorious for being deadbeat
dads -- or are they? According to Ronald Mincy, a
Columbia University professor, we know very little about
how fathers behave or what they think about fatherhood.
(08/09/01)
http://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/08/09/black_fathers/index.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Online Resource Directories <==
Stem cell research directory
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Springboard for information about stem cell research,
written on the lay(wo)man's level.
http://usnews.about.com/cs/stemcellresearch/index.htm
For more Online Resource Directories see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/homepages/
==> Introductions and FAQs <==
Women's figures show economic progress
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by Christine Stolba and Diana Furchtgott-Roth
"For three decades, women have been moving steadily upward
in the American work force. But according to many
women’s rights advocates, considerable bias against
women remains." This article, complete with
illustrations, resolves the tension in these two
statements.
http://www.iwf.org/pubs/figures.shtml
For more Introductions and FAQs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/brief/
==> Audio and Video <==
The Men's Hour
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A response to the BBC's sexist "Woman's Hour."
http://www.geocities.com/menshour/index.html
Men's Hour archive
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The free online archive of "The Men's Hour." This radio
program is a response to the BBC's "Woman's Hour" that
is broadcast in the UK every weekday.
http://www.geocities.com/menshour/prog.html
For more Audio and Video see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/multi/
==> Games, Surveys, and Tools <==
Shopper cards for gun rights
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SAS says, "Let Kmart know you spent the money elsewhere,
and let Wal-Mart know that you appreciate them
respecting your buying power!" Print out the online
cards to express your pro-gun ownership message.
http://www.2asisters.org/downloads/shoppercards.htm
For more Games, Surveys, and Tools see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/games/
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