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Items in this update:
o 'Atlas' film project back on hold
o Steinem: male dominance caused 9-11
o Playboy seeks 'Women of Enron'
o Female students flood military school
o Librarians testify in Internet porn case
o Is the definition of 'sin' expanding?
o 160 women on Afghan grand council
o Speedy Gonzales caged by Cartoon Network
o The embarrassing of Sarah Brady
o California HMOs to cover morning-after pill
o Child abuse statute expanded
o Liberals lack affection for diversity
o Prize photo stirs ethical debate
o Supporters of Russell Yates blasted
o Smoke and lose your son
o Women who lie -- women's studies departments
o Politicizing the housewife
o Federal embryo adoption
o Measuring gender bias at M.I.T. not scientific
o WorldNetDaily rescues a prostitute
o Evicting women who complain
o Nigerian adultery death sentence thrown out
o Separating families is the last resort
o Paper wives
o Here she is, Miss Vietnam
o Dear Abby on male battering
o Come the revolution
o Join Armed Females of America
o Ayn Rand's forest
o Parental rights and due process
Hello ifeminists:
What a week! Either the world has to slow down or I have to get off
caffeine. (And, given that Brad and I now define a "wild" time as putting a
scoop of regular in with the decaf, I am loathe to give up my morning mug of
vice.) Like everyone else, I am on edge about turmoil in the Middle East.
Please remember you've got a home and a way to distract yourself at
ifeminists.com. Lose yourself in the Bulletin Board
<http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/forum/feminism0204/index.html> or in
browsing the constantly updated database
<http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybytopic/> with several
hundred offering to amuse and enlighten. The front page editorials
<http://www.ifeminists.com> have been updated: "Law School Lawsuit Threatens
Academic Freedom" by me; "Confronting Women-Bashing in the Men's Movement"
by Glenn Sacks; and "Stop Treating Students Like Criminals" by Ron
Crickenberger. Surely, we can tempt you with something. I know, I know ...
stop calling you Shirley.
I hope everyone is entering for the April prize package which includes:
an 1890 letter on National-American Woman Suffrage Association letterhead,
handwritten and signed by its press secretary Ellen Battelle Dietrick;
Francisco Ferrer Association letterhead (1903, no writing) with Emma
Goldman, Helen Tufts, etc., listed on the side as Committee members; The
Free Speech League letterhead (1902, no writing) with the likes of Benjamin
Tucker listed as Committee members; an oversized Portrait Souvenir with
photos of the Clarion Club Lecturers for 1903, including Charlotte Perkins
Gilman and Marion Craig Wentworth. You *must* be a member of ifeminists.com
to enter -- but membership is easy, fast and free.
<http://www.ifeminists.com/cgi/join.cgi> Enter at the upper right hand
section of our front page <http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/contest/>
for the prize that will be awarded at the end of April. Good luck!
It is with pride that I announce Sunni Maravillosa's coup-de-tete ... I
mean, her willingness to take over the ifeminist/mensactivism chat room. ;-)
Thanks many times over Sunni; I can't think of a better hand to have on
the rudder. This Sunday's chat room
<http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/chat/>, April 7 at 9:00 p.m. EST,
will be my way of introducing you to Sunni and of having members say "hi."
FYI, Sunni is well-know author on several topics, including why/how women
should defend both themselves and the Second Amendment. Bring your questions
about gun rights, ifeminism, the Men's Movement...you name it. Sunni and I
will try to answer.
Now ... onto the main event...
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
'Atlas' film project back on hold
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MissLiberty.com
"Bad news on the 'Atlas Shrugged' miniseries project: the
deal with TNT is off. In announcing the unwinding of the
deal, however, a spokesperson at Ruddy Morgan
Productions also said that the company hasn't given up
on Atlas. The script has been rewritten as feature
motion picture and is currently being circulated in
Hollywood with the hope of attracting leading players."
(03/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/234062663.html
Steinem: male dominance caused 9-11
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NewsMax
Gloria Steinem has lashed out at the Catholic Church,
blaming its pedophile scandal on its male-dominated
hierarchy, which also created Hitler and 9-11.
(03/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/650500493.html
Playboy seeks 'Women of Enron'
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Salon/AP
Playboy is putting together a "Women of Enron" pictorial
and is inviting employees past and present to send
snapshots of themselves in bikinis if they wish to be
chosen to pose in the nude. (03/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/149148843.html
Female students flood military school
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Myrtle Beach Online
"Nine years after it was filed, a federal judge has
formally dismissed a lawsuit that challenged The Citadel's
all-male admissions policy and helped open the gates of
the state military college to female cadets." He stated
that The Citadel was now without gender bias. (03/30/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/551040870.html
Librarians testify in Internet porn case
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Silicon Valley
"In the first week of a trial debating the
constitutionality of a requirement that public libraries
install porn-blocking software on their computers,
gray-haired librarians uttered words that could make a
longshoreman blush ... and federal judges mulled the
definition of 'fetish.'"
http://www.free-market.net/rd/556899385.html
Is the definition of 'sin' expanding?
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FOX News
"Put down your knitting needle, granny, because Connecticut
lawmakers are considering taxing your sweet tooth."
Epanding the definition of "sin taxes," lawmakers have
called for raising the levies on alcohol, junk food, health club
memberships, yarn, and even candy sold in nursing homes. (03/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/716942136.html
160 women on Afghan grand council
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Associated Press
A grand council convening in June to install a new Afghan
government will include at least 160 women among its
1,500+ members. Only six seats are guaranteed for Islamic
scholars. Including women in government bodies, whether
they would have been freely elected or named, is a
growing global trend. (03/31/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/757583652.html
Speedy Gonzales caged by Cartoon Network
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Fox News
Rubbed out in the U.S. for being an offensive ethnic
stereotype, the world's fastest Latino mouse is hugely
popular in Latin America. (03/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/255741413.html
The embarrassing of Sarah Brady
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World NetDaily
Gun Owners of America awarded an honorary membership to the
son of victim disarmament activist Sarah Brady in the
wake of publicity over her purchase of a gun for him.
(03/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/280753182.html
California HMOs to cover morning-after pill
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KTVU News
Governor Gray Davis has announced that California's health
maintenance organizations must cover "morning-after"
contraceptives for women. But some pharmacists say they
will not become certified to prescribe the pill on moral
grounds. (03/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/299141585.html
Child abuse statute expanded
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Sacramento Bee
"The California Supreme Court once again has given a broad
reading to the state's felony child-abuse statute --
this time upholding the conviction of a Sacramento woman
whose baby sitter-boyfriend beat her daughter to death
while she was at work." (03/29/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/709230903.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Liberals lack affection for diversity
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New Haven Register
by Nat Hentoff
Bernard Goldberg's liberal-bashing bestseller "Bias: A CBS
Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News" has been
fiercely attacked despite its many accuracies. (03/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/694079523.html
Prize photo stirs ethical debate
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Poynter.org
by Ellen Sung
"The National Press Photographers Association gave a top
award to a previously unpublished, highly sensitive
photograph last week, setting off a controversy over
publishing standards on various platforms. The image
shows a woman being sexually assaulted during the
violent culmination of Mardi Gras in Seattle last year."
(03/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/86406149.html
Supporters of Russell Yates blasted
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Boston Globe
by Cathy Young
In what's sure to be a controversial article for the men's
movement, Cathy Young criticizes men's activists and
leaders by name for their overly generous defenses of
Russell Yates. (03/25/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/577410552.html
Smoke and lose your son
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WorldNetDaily
by Dennis Praeger
According to the March 25 New York Law Journal, New York
Supreme Court Justice Robert F. Julian has banned a
divorced mother from smoking when her son stays with
her. If she smokes, she loses visitation rights. (03/26/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/589630322.html
Women who lie -- women's studies departments
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National Review
by Kathryn Jean Lopez
Lopez decries the malicious lies of women's studies
departments at universities across America, as exposed
by the study, "Lying in a Room of One's Own: How Women's
Studies Textbooks Miseducate Students" by Christine
Stolba. (03/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/782405143.html
Politicizing the housewife
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zetetics
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." (03/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/152619104.html
Federal embryo adoption
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Reason
by Ronald Bailey
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is
about to get into the embryo adoption business -- thus,
solving a problem that Bailey argues does not exist.
(03/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/154759343.html
Measuring gender bias at M.I.T. not scientific
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Townhall
April 6, 2002
by John Leo
Leo comments on the recent study that finds gender
discrimination at MIT to be rampant, "The sad truth is
that MIT, one of the world's great centers of scientific
education, has now produced and accepted two
astonishingly unscientific studies of its own
administrative behavior." (03/21/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/543784498.html
WorldNetDaily rescues a prostitute
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WorldNetDaily
by Anthony C. LoBaido
After WorldNetDaily ran a story about the plight of Mylee,
a Thai prostitute forced by circumstances into a sordid
life, there was a dramatic and happy turnaround in her
story. A reader offered the money necessary to buy Mylee
back from her pimp. (03/31/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/712861999.html
Evicting women who complain
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Women's eNews
by Tom Schram
"A Supreme Court affirmation of a federal housing law
intended to root out violent drug crimes in public
housing projects spotlights an unintended side effect of
the guidelines: the evictions of women who report
domestic violence." (03/31/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/745153319.html
Nigerian woman's death sentence thrown out
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Equity Feminism
by Brian Carnell
"A sharia appeals court recently overturned the death
sentence of Safiya Husaini, 35, who had been ordered
stoned to death after being convicted of adultery.
Safiya's case had become a worldwide cause and an
embarrassment to Nigeria's government." (03/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/759853703.html
Separating families is the last resort
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Ottawa Citizen
April 10, 2002
by David Brown
"When child protectors knock on the door it's one of the
most dangerous and confusing times for a family: There's
no list of do's and don'ts and mistakes by parents at that
moment can have devastating results." Especially when
government agents seem biased toward separating
families. (03/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/765514565.html
Paper wives
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Women's ENews
by Rosa Yum
"A California artist reflects on the history of 'paper
wives' and 'paper daughters' -- Chinese women and girls
who assumed false identities to elude immigration laws
and join their husbands and fathers in the United
States." (03/28/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/265842035.html
Here she is, Miss Vietnam
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Reason
by Sara Rimensnyder
The Miss Vietnam beauty pageant winner this year will
receive not only the traditional tiara and scepter but
also an official nod of approval from the ruling
Communist Party for the first time in the pageant's
15-year history. (03/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/972423924.html
Dear Abby on male battering
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UExpress
by Abby
On March 22nd, advice columnist Dear Abby printed a letter
from Phil Cook of Stop Abuse For Everyone and responded
by acknowledging that domestic violence in not a gender
issue but a human one. (03/22/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/645714473.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Magazines and Periodic Columns <==
Come the revolution
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Armed Females of Texas
by Kathryn Graham
Newsletter by Kathryn Graham, Armed Females of Texas. Read
online or subscribe to receive by email
http://www.free-market.net/rd/843970415.html
For more Magazines and Periodic Columns see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/magazines/
==> Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs <==
Join Armed Females of America
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Armed Females of Texas
"I don't care if you are male, female, gay, straight,
transgendered, Christian, Pagan (as I am), or a green
man with purple polka dots from Mars, if you believe
women should be armed for their own defense, then
welcome! No one who shares this belief will be turned
away." Online application provided
http://www.free-market.net/rd/845700591.html
For more Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/organizations/
==> Introductions and FAQs <==
Ayn Rand's forest
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Strike the Root
by Gand
"'Intellectuals' love to denigrate the work of Ayn Rand,
indeed the person as well. Mostly it (the denigration)
is either personal attack or taking a microscope to each
'tree' in the Rand forest of work; the structure of the
fiction, the mechanics of her philosophy, the 'social'
aspects, etc. Few bother to observe the forest itself."
(03/27/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/738119528.html
For more Introductions and FAQs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/brief/
==> Scholarly and In-Depth Studies <==
Parental rights and due process
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Journal of Law and Family Studies
by Donald C. Hubin
Despite their status as fundamental constitutional rights,
parental rights are routinely suspended or revoked as a
result of procedures that fail to meet even minimal
standards of procedural and substantive due process.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/426127890.html
For more Scholarly and In-Depth Studies see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/in-depth/
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