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Items in this update:
o Aid workers trade food for sex
o Child homicide bill raises abortion concerns
o White males in Army win court case
o Australia bans embryo research
o UK okays cloning of human embryos
o Boy, 8, faces charges for pointing toy gun
o Uganda has no gays
o E-divorce: click and split
o 'Feminist' military committee gets new charter
o NY lifts pro-life center subpeonas
o Mother given probation for killing 2 children
o The case of Arab feminism
o Government as matchmaker
o 'Positive' discrimination?
o Locking up sexual predators indefinitely?
o Short dictionary of political reality
o When is sexual harassment just flirting?
o Laws/police protect dogs more than prostitutes
o An ethical quagmire of responsible motherhood
o Equity feminists and stand up guys
o Grin and bare it at U.C. Berkeley
o An armed campus
o A feminist with 'tits out'
o Alabama judge says lesbian not fit for motherhood
o Arab women become terrorists/freedom fighters
o Wascally wabbit made us laugh ... when it was legal
o Debate, don't demonize, embryonic research
o The rape of males
o Ayn Rand's vision: how to use it in your life
Hello ifeminists:
"Once more into the breach, dear friends..." In other words, another
Insider Update! I trust you all have had a politically incorrect week since
the last one.
I'd like to welcome Sunni Maravillosa as our ifeminist of the month
for March. Sunni's smiling face is on the ifeminist frontpage
<http://www.ifeminists.com> along with the latest weekly editorials:
"Identity Politics Dismisses Shared Humanity"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0305.html> by me;
and, "Tennessee Shared Parenting Bill Could Help Children, Reduce Divorce"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0305a.html> by Glenn
Sacks. Enjoy!
Ifeminists.com is trying a new line of "attack." In conjunction with
Bureaucrash (hi Jason!), we are launching a speaker's bureau to bring
lecturers onto campuses. For more information, please write Jason Talley at
jason@jdtalley.com. I will deliver the Bureau's first lecture on March 20th,
7:00 p.m. EST at the Humanities Theatre of the University of Waterloo.
Attendance is free.
If you haven't checked out the Bulletin Board recently, then you are
cheating youself. The vigorous discussion surrounding the Andrea Yates case
<http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/forum/feminism0203/messages/591797990
.html> is only one of the many threads. We keep archiving to keep the BB
download fast but people *will* keep talking! ;-)
I'd like to ask readers to do the site a favor. Could you send out
this copy of the InsiderUpdate to your "friends list," to family ... to
anyone you think would be interested in receiving it or in browsing
ifeminists.com? I would greatly appreciate your doing so.
Now....onto the main event!
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Aid workers trade food for sex
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Sydney Morning Herald
A report by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and
Save the Children claims that aid workers for more than
40 agencies in west Africa have been involved in
extensive sexual exploitation of refugee children,
offering food rations in return for favours. (02/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/936428397.html
Child homicide bill raises abortion concerns
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Salt Lake Tribune
"Some abortion-rights advocates are questioning whether a
child homicide bill suddenly flying through the
Legislature is an attempt to sneak into state law the
premise that life begins at conception." The bill adds
wording to protect an "unborn child at any stage of its
development." (03/01/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/324774401.html
White males in Army win court case
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Washington Post
A federal judge has struck down theArmy's equal-opportunity
promotion process, saying thepolicy gives undue
preference to women and minorities at the expense of
white male officers. (03/04/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/330184707.html
Australia bans embryo research
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The Age
Australia's federal cabinet has banned the use of spare IVF
human embryos for research, sparking predictions of an
exodus of elite Australian scientists overseas. (02/26/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/349417422.html
Domestic violence law puts police in a bind
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Union Leader
Under New Hampshire state law, police were required to
arrest a man accused of violating a protective order
issued by his estranged wife. The problem. The man uses
a wheelchair, is legally blind, requires frequent kidney
dialysistreatments and is not a plausible threat to anyone.
(02/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/189130572.html
UK okays cloning of human embryos
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New Scientist
UK scientists have been given the final go-ahead to conduct
limited cloning of human embryos. The British government
passed a law permitting such research over a year ago
but the matter was put on hold pending a report from the
House of Lords. (02/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/927116682.html
Boy, 8, faces charges for pointing toy gun
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Ann Arbor News
"An 8-year-old Whitmore Lake boy is facing criminal charges
for pointing a toy gun at three other youngsters and
threatening to shoot them.Even though the incident
involved a toy gun, the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's
Office said, Tommy Davis' intent was to threaten and
scare the other children." (03/02/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/761462661.html
Uganda has no gays
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Associated Press
After accepting an award for his government's successful
campaign against AIDS, Uganda's president declared that
his country has no homosexuals. The comment by President
Yoweri Museveni follows a report by a human rights group
that accused Uganda and other countries of torturing and
mistreating their homosexual populations. (03/03/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/502292119.html
E-divorce: click and split
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WorldNetDaily
"CompleteCase.com is a Seattle-based page that allows
couples looking to break up to simply log on, fill in
the blanks and put a quick and relatively simple end to
their marriage." The founder claims that response has
been "overwhelmingly good." (03/01/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/767730657.html
'Feminist' military committee gets new charter
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FOX News
"The Department of Defense announced late Thursday that it
plans to change the charter of a 51-year-old panel of
civilian advisors that has been criticized recently as a
tool of feminists." (03/01/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/733112712.html
NY lifts pro-life center subpeonas
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WorldNetDaily
"New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has withdrawn
subpoenas issued to 10 crisis pregnancy centers in what
pro-life backers called a 'politically motivated
campaign' to shut them down." The controversy is not
over, however, as some centers protest the "agreements"
being worked out with the State. (02/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/742434972.html
Mother given probation for killing 2 children
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WSMV
In the wake of publicity over Andrea Yates, Sharon Hicks
pleaded no contest to reckless homicide for smothering
her two children and received 12 years of probation. Her
plea agreement also required sterilization and prohibited
contact with any children under the age of five.(02/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/796474774.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
The case of Arab feminism
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Monthly Review
by Susan Muaddi Darraj
Darraj explores "the astounding disconnection between the
lives of Arab women, and the lives of Arab women as
represented by the American media and entertainment
industries, thus as perceived by Americans themselves." (03/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/431159893.html
Government as matchmaker
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Boston Globe
by Cathy Young
Young asks, "Should the government be in the business of
building better marriages? That's the question raised by
the proposal, in the Bush administration budget for next
year, to spend up to $100 million to promote marriage
among the poor." (02/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/334235995.html
'Positive' discrimination?
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Equity Feminism
by Brian Carnell
After last summer's elections in Great Britain, women made
up only 118 of 659 politicians elected to the House of
Commons. Great Britain is now considering requiring
political parties to nominate women. Is this legal or
even a good idea? (02/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/337256206.html
Locking up sexual predators indefinitely?
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Counter Punch
by Alex Cockburn
A teacher in Arizona faces a possible 100 years in jail for
a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student. Such
cases make Cockburn question whether current draconian
policies against sexual "predators" make sense. (02/21/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/358328752.html
Short dictionary of political reality
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Spintech
by Richard Murphy
"Assisted Suicide: The ultimate reform of the Social
Security System. If senior citizens utilize assisted
suicide en masse, the system's solvency can be greatly
enhanced. Bombing: Diplomatic method preferred by US
Government policy makers pioneered during the Clinton
administration." (02/22/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/691962091.html
When is sexual harassment just flirting?
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enotalone
by Peta Heskell
"How do we know if someone is flirting or sexually
harassing us? This begs the question ‘Who is responsible
for your feelings’." So opens this provocative review of
a new book by Susan Strauss, "Sexual Harassment and Teens."
http://www.free-market.net/rd/205632927.html
Laws/police protect dogs more than prostitutes
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The Guardian (UK)
by Julian Borger
"A pig farmer was charged in Vancouver this week with the
murder of two prostitutes. He may have killed at least
50 more. So how could so many disappear from the city
without arousing suspicion?" This is especially true
since word on street and tips to police had pointed to
the farmer for years. (02/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/213374352.html
An ethical quagmire of responsible motherhood
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Salon
by Jennifer Foote Sweeney
Based on a recent event, Sweeney opens an issue with many
ethical facets: should a woman with imminent Alzheimer's
become pregnant when she know she will become unable to
care the child a few years down the line? Sweeney says
"no." (03/01/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/485526608.html
Equity feminists and stand up guys
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Radical Middle
by Mark Satin
In the early 1990s, a new wave of thinkers and activists
began powerfully critiquing traditional feminist and
men’s liberationist dogma. Promising new concepts like
"equity feminism" and the "standup guy" have been
proposed, most of them converging at the radical middle.
(03/04/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/488997754.html
Grin and bare it at U.C. Berkeley
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Townhall
by John Leo
"What? Berkeley has fraternity parties for credit?" Leo's
humorous take on the recent "sex scandal" surrounding
political correctness and Berkeley's classes on
sexuality. (03/04/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/492108873.html
An armed campus
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Sunspot.net
by Susan Reimer
Reimer gives a fairly balanced report on Christie Caywood
and her Second Amendment Sisters activism at Mount
Holyoke College, then devastates the line between
journalism and personal opinion at the end: "I regret
that this is the child that college activism birthed: a
young woman whose goal is to arm her classmates ... as
though the women's movement has finally turned in upon
itself" (03/03/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/814916368.html
A feminist with 'tits out'
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The Guardian
by Leon Hickman
"Her new single, Bad Babysitter, hit the charts this week
and suddenly everyone's talking about Princess
Superstar, the 28-year-old rapper who's been dubbed 'the
female Eminem'." She is part of a new wave that may
redefine feminism. (02/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/983253843.html
Alabama judge says lesbian not fit for motherhood
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Women's eNews
by staff
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Alabama and Equality Begins
at Home of Central Alabama -- two groups that promote
gay rights in the state -- have asked Alabama Supreme
Court Chief Justice Roy Moore to leave the bench. At
issue is a decision which indicates lesbians cannot be
good mothers. (02/23/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/784184882.html
Arab women become terrorists/freedom fighters
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The Age
Darin Abu Eisheh seems to be the sign of a growing trend. A
devout Muslim college student, she believed that women
should take their place beside Palestinian men in
fighting Israeli occupation. She died in a recent bombing suicide
that also killed Israelis. (02/03/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/747396185.html
Wascally wabbit made us laugh ... when it was legal
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Wall Street Journal
by Daniel Henninger
"The death of Bugs Bunny's father brings home how much the
laughter has gone out of American life. As soon as you
step outside the nation's last unmonitored behavior zone
-- the short distance between your eyes and the home
television -- you've gotta watch where, when, at what
and at whom you laugh. How'd that happen?" (03/01/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/214265499.html
Debate, don't demonize, embryonic research
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The Age
by Margaret Wertheim
"When does a human body become a human person?" Wertheim's
answer, "I feel conflicted on this matter. What I do
know is that medical science is presenting us with
choices that humans have never had before. Rather than
shouting at one another, we need to sit down together
and talk. Above all, we need to listen." (02/03/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/397542082.html
==> Online Resource Directories <==
The rape of males
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CallRape
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1994, there
were approximately 60,000 rapes of males age 12 and over
in the United States in 1992. Many male rapes occur in
prison and go unreported, unregistered by the
statistics.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/938508809.html
For more Online Resource Directories see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/homepages/
==> Events <==
Ayn Rand's vision: how to use it in your life
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Fountainhead Institute
April 26, 2002
If you loved Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead, this is
for you. Did you know there is a whole body of ideas
that can help you create this world in your own life?
This weekend seminar is for students who want to deepen
their understanding of Ayn Rand's philosophy and their
ability to apply it in their own lives.
mailto:marsha@fountainheadinstitute.com
http://www.free-market.net/rd/347638294.html
For more Events see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/events/
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