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Items in this update:
o Mothers risk being sued over disabilities
o Decision expected in Nigerian stoning case
o Delaware lesbian to pay child support
o Guerrilla girls wear ape masks to inform
o Idaho okays fetal protection bill
o Norway firms must accept women in the boardroom
o Pataki to sign controversial health-care bill
o Andrea Yates gets life sentence
o Ireland's family courts anti-male?
o Political correctness, right-wing style
o When a loaded gun enters the equation
o Sex, science and statistics
o John Galt, read this now
o Confessions of a faux feminist
o Reaction to the Yates verdict
o NJ makes non-fathers pay child support
o Politicizing the housewife
o Annie, get your gun
o Is the Born-Alive Act being misrepresented?
o Fathers want rightful role in child custody
o Some states reject abstinence-only sex ed
o Couple stymied by presumption of guilt
o Feminists for fornication
o Diana Hsieh's home page
o Europe's terms for terminations
o Male victims of domestic violence
o Sexual victimization of college women
o How advantage becomes discrimination
Hello ifeminists:
Today's editorial comments are a bit more somber than usual. As many
of you know, I have been trying to support the Men's Movement -- that loose
coalition of individuals and organizations that work toward true legal
equality of the genders, especially in areas such as the reform of child
custody laws. Their cause is a just one. That is why there is a "Men's
Movement" section at ifeminists, my FOX News column features issues such as
male suicide in relation to child support laws, editorials from men appear
on the front page, and there is an enforced policy of civility toward men on
the BB. I have met wonderful people as a result: My good buddy James
Hanback, the incredible Warren Farrell with whom I am discussing possible
joint ventures, Scott Garman who works to the point of burn-out for men's
rights, Glenn Sacks with his impish tho' serious writing style ... and I am
only mentioning a few names.
There has also been a frightening amount of abuse from a segment of
the movement that seems to be in love with their anger toward women. The
indiscriminate rage directed toward anyone female reminds me of nothing so
much as the reverse situation in the early days of radical feminism. It
doesn't come merely from the extreme factions ... which means, I frankly do
not know what to do about it -- or even whether "doing" anything is
possible. I am actively turning over the issue in my mind and I want to hear
from ifeminist members who have constructive suggestions.
It is Tuesday, which means new editorials are posted on our front
page: "Wrongful Life"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0319.html> by me and
"California Paternity Justice Act: If the Genes Don't Fit, You Must Acquit"
by Glenn Sacks. Enjoy.
I also want to thank the ineffable Sunni Maravillosa (see her photo as
ifeminist of the month for March <http://www.ifeminists.com>) for
volunteering to take over moderation of the jointly sponsored
ifeminist/mensactivism chat room each Sunday. Sunni is not available until
early April so I will not be scheduling guests or, indeed, showing up myself
in the chat room for the next few weeks. It will open anew with Sunni at the
helm. My reaffirmed thanks to her.
Now, onto to the main event...
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
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==> News Reports <==
Mothers risk being sued over disabilities
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Sydney Morning Herald
Mothers could be sued by their disabled children for not
proceeding with abortion if a court rules in favour of
the plaintiff in a landmark medical negligence case.
(03/13/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/131714578.html
Decision expected in Nigerian stoning case
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Women's eNews
"A court's decision to execute a woman for adultery has
fueled controversy over Nigeria's version of Islamic
justice. Now an influential Islamic body hopes to stop
the country's planned ratification of numerous U.N.
conventions protecting human rights." Of course, many
voices believe the U.N. advances a PC agenda as often as
it protects rights. (03/18/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/659204719.html
Delaware lesbian to pay child support
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Newsday.com
"Delaware has joined a handful of states breaking legal
ground in child support with a court ruling that two
women should both be considered parents of a 4-year-old
boy to whom one gave birth after in-vitro
fertilization." (03/16/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/520936858.html
Guerrilla girls wear ape masks to inform
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Badger Herald
The Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous, collaborative group of
women artists, fight discrimination in the art world --
all the while wearing gorilla masks to protect their
professional careers. (03/14/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/15428368.html
Idaho okays fetal protection bill
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Las Vegas Sun
The Idaho state House has approved a bill protecting
fetuses under state murder, manslaughter and aggravated
battery laws. The Republican governor has not indicated
whether he will sign it. (03/13/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/53860265.html
Military dismisses gays at highest rate since '87
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Arizona Republic/AP
The number of people discharged from the military for
homosexuality rose last year to the highest total since
1987. The military dismissed 1,253 people last year for
homosexual conduct or for stating their homosexuality,
up from 1,241 in 2000. (03/14/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/142855608.html
Norway firms must accept women in the boardroom
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Yahoo/Reuters
Norway's government has said it will force companies to
guarantee that at least 40 percent of board members are
women. This news item heralds the totalitarian move as a
blow against sexism without commenting on how the state
has tightened its grip on private enterprise. (03/08/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/203449242.html
Pataki to sign controversial health-care bill
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New York Post
After urging lawmakers to resolve controversy over whether
a woman's health-care bill should exempt religious
institutions from having to provide contraceptive
coverage to employees, Pataki indicated he would sign
the measure. He has subsequently asked for a "conscience
clause." (03/13/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/906035261.html
Andrea Yates gets life sentence
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Yahoo Daily News/
A Texas jury has sentenced Andrea Yates to life in prison
for drowning her five young children in the family
bathtub last summer. Under Texas law she will not be
eligible for parole for at least 40 years. (03/15/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/638171858.html
Ireland's family courts anti-male?
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Longford Leader
An estranged Irish father who chained himself to a seat in
a court house to highlight alleged anti-male
discrimination within the Family Law system has been
cleared of charges. (03/15/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/676574361.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Political correctness, right-wing style
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New Republic
by Jonathan Chait
Chait contends, "Liberal media bias occupies a cherished
space within the conservative psyche." He uses
Goldberg's recent and explosive book "Bias" to test the
hypothesis that such a bias exists. (03/07/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/144866588.html
Women clamor for the sponge
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Women's eNews
by Naomi Mendelsohn
"Women lost one of the few non-hormonal contraceptive
options when the sponge disappeared from American
shelves six years ago. Three years later, another
company agreed to manufacture the device, but the
government still hasn't approved it for sale."
(03/17/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/656813920.html
When a loaded gun enters the equation
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North Jersey Media
by Rod Allee
"Should the young woman have access to a handgun? If the
young woman were your daughter or your sister, would you
want her to have access to a handgun - not locked up in
a vault, but ready to go - as her enraged, abusive,
threatening, drunk, and wasted boyfriend came through
that apartment door? Even if that handgun were
'illegal'?" (03/17/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/47794914.html
Sex, science and statistics
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National Association of Scholars
This article highlights data (mostly from 1995) relevant to
controversies surrounding the hiring and promotion of
women into academic positions. (02/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/527057049.html
John Galt, read this now
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Laissez Faire Books
by David M. Brown
Lessons to be learned from Leonard Peikoff's recent
conflict with the Library of Congress: "First, don't
enlist government to unjustly harass other people lest
you be likewise harassed yourself." (03/08/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/730023385.html
Confessions of a faux feminist
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Tart city
by Jane Haddam
"The first time I ever heard of feminism, I was twelve
years old, it was 1963, and I thought I had used it to
kill my grandmother ..." (03/14/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/7356397.html
Reaction to the Yates verdict
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Salon
by Janelle Brown
This article offers a selection of reactions to the
"guilty" verdict rendered in the Andrea Yates murder
trial. Most comments are generally sympathetic to the
mother who murdered her five children. (03/13/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/20288550.html
NJ makes non-fathers pay child support
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Law.com
by Jim Edwards
"Even when a woman admits she knew the biological father
was not her partner and lied to the presumed father, New
Jersey's controlling cases have looked the other way and
continued to demand child-support payments from the
man." The article offers detailed legal analysis. (03/04/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/66940704.html
Politicizing the housewife
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Ideas on Liberty
by Wendy McElroy
What it means to be a housewife is being revised
ideologically in order to impugn the choice some mothers
make to stay at home. (03/14/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/226302039.html
Annie, get your gun
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Wall Street Journal
by Collin Levey
Levey rebuts the recent New York Times column by Nicholas
Kristof, which smeared and belittled recent
college-based gun rights activism by women. "Mr. Kristof
may be overreacting. It's hard to connect the dots
between sport-shooting girls at a college that still serves milk
and cookies in the dorms at bedtime and an impending
spike in the national murder rate." (03/14/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/639819270.html
Is the Born-Alive Act being misrepresented?
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National Review
by Kathryn Jean Lopez
On March 12th, the House of Representatives passed the
Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. Lopez argues that
major news sources, such as the Associated Press, have
misrepresented the Act as protecting fetuses rather than
protecting live infants. (03/13/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/898084917.html
Fathers want rightful role in child custody
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Boston Globe
by Peter Schworm
Like many fathers estranged from their children as a result
of divorce, Scott Richardson battled a system that
seemed to be weighed against men: family court. It made
him an activist for men's rights. (03/14/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/9190631.html
Some states reject abstinence-only sex ed
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Women's eNews
by Rebecca Vesely
"Arizona may become the latest state to challenge the
federal push towards abstinence-only sex education. A
proposed law would require the state's sex-ed classes to
include updated information about contraception and
sexually transmitted diseases." (03/11/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/661412629.html
Couple stymied by presumption of guilt
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Ottawa Citizen
by Dave Brown
In this column, an estranged couple has the columnist
acting as their go-between for communication because
government-forced restraining orders prevent them from
communicating directly. They claim to have been forcibly
separated by "warriors in the war against violence
towards women." (03/13/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/688664733.html
Feminists for fornication
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San Francisco Examiner
by Tanya Pampalone
When a handful of anti-porn protesters turned out to
protest the opening of Larry Flynt's club in S.F., they
were met by something they didn't expect: women who
wanted it. The counter protesters carried signs reading,
"feminists for fornication." (03/11/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/705185430.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Experts <==
Diana Hsieh's home page
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Diana Hsieh
Hsieh's expertise is wider than Objectivist theory, for
which many will recognize her name. This is the free
online home of her work.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/607432445.html
For more Experts see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/experts/
==> Introductions and FAQs <==
Europe's terms for terminations
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BBC
Abortion debates continue to rage across Europe -- whether
they should be allowed, encouraged, discouraged or be
seen as part of family planning and a woman's human
rights. This BBC article gives a brief overview of the
legal situation regarding abortion in each of the
countries of Europe. (03/12/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/879788436.html
For more Introductions and FAQs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/brief/
==> Scholarly and In-Depth Studies <==
Male victims of domestic violence
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Univ. of Pennsylvania
by Richard J. Gelles, Ph.D., Joanne and Raymond Welsh
This in-depth account concludes, "Given the body of
research on domestic violence that finds continued
unexpectedly high rates of violence toward men in
intimate relations, it is necessary to reframe domestic
violence as something other than a 'gender crime' or
example of 'patriarchal coercive control'."
http://www.free-market.net/rd/63710568.html
Sexual victimization of college women
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US Dept. of Justice
A joint report from BJS and the National Institute of
Justice that explores the prevalence and nature of
sexual assault occurring at colleges throughout the
nation. The "1 in 4 women raped in college" stat has
been a source of great controversy.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/137553546.html
How advantage becomes discrimination
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National Association of Scholars
"Female faculty ... continue to cite the underrepresenation
of women among new hires as proof positive of
discrimination. They conveniently forget to point out
that women are also underrepresented among applicants.
Two NAS members collect numbers from three
universities--and find women anything but
underrepresented among new hires." (02/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/663405082.html
For more Scholarly and In-Depth Studies see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/in-depth/
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