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Items in this update:
o Anti-penis display replaced by Old Glory
o Female killer given domestic violence award
o Veil is lifted in Mazar-e Sharif
o Fighting the Taliban is woman's work
o Father billed for child resulting from his own 'rape'
o Clinton resigns from bar over Paula Jones
o 9-11 affects donations to pro-choice organizations
o Raping children touted as AIDS cure
o Women take up hunting with guns, bows, and knives
o Casualties of a custody war
o Company offers rape insurance
o Adoption ruling worries lesbians
o Locked out of politics, Polish women win at business
o UN should provide aid, not impose feminist policy
o Men are the expendable sex
o An insider's view of the new thought police
o Why the fish is riding a bicycle
o Impure thoughts about Alice
o Remember the women?
o The errors of women's studies textbooks
o A gun that was never fired saved my life
o Are Hollyweird and academia finally getting the message?
o Women's progress shelved as Islamic world boils
o SAS featured links
o Becoming an Outdoors Woman
o Donna LaFramboise, articles online
o A psychiatrist examines the anti-gun mentality
Hello ifeminists:
After four cities, seven airports, three time zones and six days of
traveling, I am back at ifeminists.com. Many thanks to Steve Trinward for
the meticulous care with which he managed the site in my absence. I promised
a write-up of my (mis)adventures in air travel but the truth is that the
experience was alternately boring and irritating. Boring because of the long
waits in long lines, irritating because of being "wanded," patted down,
bag-searched, I.D.ed, questioned and intimidated by the sight of National
Guards with machine guns. I find myself without anything of value to
communicate about the experience -- beyond the obvious, that is.
The FOXNews.com/ifeminist editorial for this week is entitled "The UN
should provide aid, not impose social policy"
(http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2001/1113.html) and is a
commentary on the current conflict between the UN and the Vatican. As part
of ifeminists.com's extended hand of goodwill to the Men's Movement, I'm
pleased to announce the first of what I hope will be frequent guest
editorials by James R. Hanback, Jr.: "Men Are the Expendable Sex"
(http://www.free-market.net/rd/457405516.html). Both editorials are
available at <http://www.ifeminists.com/>. Welcome James! Also Trudy Schuett
has asked me to announce the launching of CyberManbooks, a new man-friendly
e-publishing venture that is inviting authors who are sympathetic to the
Men's Movement to submit material.
<http://www.cyberManbooks.com/>
I stumbled across the first reference I've seen of Afghan women taking
up arms against the Taliban (the article link is included below). I would
appreciate any further information readers could send me on Afghan rebel
women. If ever women need to be armed in self-defense it is the women of
Afghanistan. Why is no one championing that position?
Some confusion has resulted from a recent e-mailing. Let me clear it
up by stating that ifeminists.com is not affiliated with the Libertarian
Party although members of the LP are welcome to draw upon this resource
freely and join in any activity offered. Nor am I a member of the LP, as the
e-mailing stated.
Now ... onto the main event.
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Anti-penis display replaced by Old Glory
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The Daily Camera
A controversial art display, "Hang 'Em Out to Dry,"
featuring 21 brightly colored ceramic penises clipped to
a clothes line, was stolen from a domestic violence
awareness exhibit at a public library. The thief hung an
American flag in its place. (11/11/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/275113357.html
Female killer given domestic violence award
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BBC
"An Asian woman who was jailed for life for setting fire to
her husband has been honoured at an awards ceremony for
breaking the taboo of domestic violence." In short, a
woman who killed her husband instead of going to the
London police has become a role model for women. (11/12/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/481869613.html
Veil is lifted in Mazar-e Sharif
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Washington Post
For the first time in years, women are walking in the
streets of Mazar-e Sharif without veils as the Taliban
has left the city. (11/12/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/473068970.html
Fighting the Taliban is woman's work
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The Age
At last a news article that mentions Afghan women taking up
arms against the Taliban in their own self-defense.
(11/12/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/746383212.html
Father billed for child resulting from his own 'rape'
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The Times (UK)
"A 25-year-old man faces a £55,000 maintenance bill for a
child he fathered unknowingly when he was 15 after being
seduced by a woman twice his age." (11/06/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/23084355.html
Clinton resigns from bar over Paula Jones
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Newsday
Former President Bill Clinton has asked to resign from the
Supreme Court bar rather than fight suspension or
disbarment related to the Paula Jones sexual harassment
investigation. (11/10/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/739643622.html
9-11 affects donations to pro-choice organizations
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Agape
Donations to Planned Parenthood have decreased since the
attack on the World Trade Center. Tax funding remains
the same, however. Other pro-choice organizations report
differently. (11/05/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/734393105.html
Raping children touted as AIDS cure
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The News Telegraph
More than 67,000 cases of rape and sexual assaults
against children were reported last year in
AIDS-stricken South Africa, compared with 37,500 in
1998. Unreported incidents could be 10 times that
number. One of the main reasons is the widespread belief
that sex with children cures AIDS. (11/11/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/718931451.html
Women take up hunting with guns, bows, and knives
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Women's eNews
by Dawn Fallik
Women are learning to hunt with bows and single-shot rifles
and gut deer. They are acquiring the real-world skills
of self-sufficiency and comfort with weaponry. (11/09/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/864933784.html
Casualties of a custody war
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"On the morning of Feb. 27, 2001, Karen Scott walked into
her 16-year-old son's room to make sure he was getting
ready for school. Instead, she found Nathan Grieco
kneeling on the floor by his bed, a leather belt around
his neck, blood spilling from his mouth. He was dead."
Since then, Nathan has become almost a poster-boy for
the effects of child custody battles across the country. (11/08/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/896309537.html
Company offers rape insurance
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thescotsman.co.uk
A healthcare company has launched a low-cost rape insurance
program in South Africa, which faces the world’s highest
incidence of sexual assault. The policy, offered by
LifeSense Group, a private South African company, would
seek to help victims deal with the trauma of being
raped, especially by an attacker suspected to be
HIV-positive. (11/06/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/140721455.html
Adoption ruling worries lesbians
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Sacramento Bee
A California court has cast doubts about the legal validity
of thousands of adoptions by lesbian couples, panicking
families throughout the state. The adoptions were
finalized under the state's "second-parent" adoption
practice, which allows children of lesbian couples to
have two legal parents. But the 4th Appellate District
Court in San Diego ruled that such adoptions are not
legal. (11/07/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/127102294.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Locked out of politics, Polish women win at business
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Women's E-News
by Peggy Simpson
Twelve years after the fall of communism in 1989, Polish
women are almost nowhere in terms of political
influence, but they are becoming major players in the
new economy as owners and managers. (11/06/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/111177550.html
UN should provide aid, not impose feminist policy
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FOX News
by Wendy McElroy
The United Nations needs to abandon its advocacy of social
policy, especially feminist policies, and concentrate on
the basics of providing food, shelter, clothing and
medicine to refugees. (11/12/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/485469715.html
Men are the expendable sex
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James R. Hanback, Jr.
by James R. Hanback, Jr.
Hanback, a guest commentator for ifeminists.com, speaks of
men as expendable because they are the ones subjected to
the draft in wartime. The draft is not only a violation
of individual freedom but also a blatant example of a
double standard in law. (11/12/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/457405516.html
An insider's view of the new thought police
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FrontPageMagazine
by Lowell Ponte
"The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free
Speech and Free Minds" is an amazing tell-all book about
the corruption and bribery of such groups as NOW. The
author Tammy Bruce was President of the Los Angeles
chapter of NOW for six years and has hair-curling tales
of hypocrisy to tell. A true scandal-fest. (1/09/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/994527277.html
Why the fish is riding a bicycle
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Sydney Mail
by staff
An interview with Gloria Steinem, who convinced many of the
'60s generation that marriage was an anti-woman
institution. She explains why, three decades later, she
has embraced her own marriage. (11/12/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/736852684.html
Impure thoughts about Alice
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Sydney Mail
by Katie Roiphe
In a politically correct world, actions and attitudes are
painted in black-and-white. Feminist Katie Rophie offers
a more sophisticated portrait of Lewis Carroll -- a man
accused by radical feminism of being a pedophile. (11/10/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/730952410.html
Remember the women?
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Equity Feminism
by Brian Carnell
Carnell responds to a feminist analysis of the World Trade
Center attack, "What I find saddening is this obsessive
feminist need to reduce every issue to rather parochial
men vs. women distinctions." (11/06/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/897634575.html
The errors of women's studies textbooks
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Glenn Sacks
by Glenn Sacks
"Women are under siege and oppressed, while men have it
easy. This is the unmistakable message of Margaret L.
Andersen's 'Thinking About Women: Sociological
Perspectives on Sex and Gender,' one of America's most
popular Women's Studies 101 textbooks." (11/10/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/47505163.html
A gun that was never fired saved my life
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Second Amendment Sisters, Inc.
by Madeline
A woman tells the story of how owning and knowing how to
use a gun saved her from her abusive ex-husband.
(11/05/01)
inquire@2asisters.org
http://www.free-market.net/rd/792692953.html
Are Hollyweird and academia finally getting the message?
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Jewish World Review
by Linda Bowles
Noting Rosie O'Donnell's recent apparent epiphany -- she
actually likes George Bush now -- and recent polls of
college students, by the Institute of Politics at
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, showing
overwhelming support for the war, Bowles wonders if the
days of political correctness and such might not be in
decline. (11/06/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/121897934.html
Women's progress shelved as Islamic world boils
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Women's E-News
With the Arab and Islamic world on the boil, the whole
question of women and women's progress has been brushed
aside, reports Barbara Crossette in The New York Times:
"In the war of militant Islam against the infidel West,
there is a chilling paradox. Nowhere -- not on
protesters banners, pre-suicide videos or posters -- is
there a woman's face." (11/05/01)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/113557621.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Online Resource Directories <==
SAS featured links
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Second Amendment Sisters, Inc.
Collection of links to pro-gun articles, groups, discussion
clubs, shops and more.
inquire@2asisters.org
http://www.free-market.net/rd/784912517.html
For more Online Resource Directories see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/homepages/
==> Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs <==
Becoming an Outdoors Woman
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Peggy Farrell
One of the rarely discussed uses of weaponry for women is
as a means of self-sufficiency. This organization
teaches women to hunt with rifles and bows, and how to
use a knife to skin a deer.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/870296162.html
For more Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/organizations/
==> Online Books and Collections <==
Donna LaFramboise, articles online
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Donna LaFramboise
A free online collection of articles by journalist
LaFramboise who is one of the finest critics of PC
feminism and of the double standard our society imposes
upon men.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/412383276.html
For more Online Books and Collections see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/e-texts/
==> Games, Surveys, and Tools <==
A psychiatrist examines the anti-gun mentality
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JPFO
by Sarah Thompson
Psychiatrist Sarah Thompson explains the hatred and/or fear
of guns that permeates our culture. She offers practical
advice on how to overcome that prejudice in people.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/513570827.html
For more Games, Surveys, and Tools see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/games/
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