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Items in this update:
o Gun training offered to abused women
o Women flood Canadian military
o Rape: silent war on South African women
o Russian troops use rape as weapon
o Abused women may have greater refugee claim
o Bush says 'ban the clones!'
o Woman's agony over rape case
o Estrogen given to 'too tall' teens
o Three priests oppose ban on gay marriage
o Choose Life license plates ready to roll
o After I was raped
o The effectiveness of sex abstinence programs
o Survey shows men do housework
o The battered truth syndrome
o The profit motive in child support errors
o The remastered race
o Feminists abroad -- ugly Americans?
o Looking askance at Bush's $300 million matrimony plan
o Firm fights against state-funded abortion
o Conviction rate for rape falls precipitously
o Why abortion matters
o Transcripts of the Salem witch trials
o Political correctness: the scourge of our time
o Women and entrepreneurship in California
o The prep-school PC plague
o Marriage is safest place for women, children
o History of individualist feminism
o Audio of show on domestic violence against men
o Ashcroft hides breasts of justice -- animation/audio
Hello ifeminists:
There's a favor I'd like to ask of each reader. Could you send this
issue of the InsiderUpdate out to an acquaintance, your "friends" list, an
editor, or a discussion group who/which might be interested? I would
appreciate it.
And hello! I am freshly returned from an enjoyable LP Con in Ohio
where I lectured on ifeminism and political optimism. The crowd was cordial
and interested in ideas, the mood upbeat, the accommodations unique. Brad
and I wandered around the "Quaker Oats" hotel, which was made out of
converted silos with every circular room being a slice of a silo. Thanks to
Matt Terry for making Ohio so receptive to ifeminism. And "Hey
Elizabeth!" -- it was good to finally meet you in person.
The weekly editorial section of ifeminists is updated with an article
by me entitled "Gender Feminism's Global Blackmail"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0416.html>, Glen
Sacks' "Boys: the New Underclass in American Schools"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0416a.html>, and
Dianna Thompson's "DNA Evidence: Enough to Exonerate Dads?"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0416b.html>. Enjoy!
Tracy Quan -- a sister-traveller and gad-about -- has been profiled in
the May 2002 issue of Penthouse (page 125). The article mentions that Tracy
and chief justice William Rehnquist met "while autographing their respective
works at a Washington, D.C., book fair. Tracy didn't tell him about her
former life, however." As she commented in email to me, "I don't see myself
as Tracy Quan, the hooker. I see myself as Tracy Quan, a citizen of this
land over which he dispenses justice."
As always, the Bulletin Board is buzzing and open for all to drop
by -- either to post or to browse. A sample: LibertyBelle is taking Dear
Abby to task over big weddings
<http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/forum/feminism0204b/messages/03163187
2.html>, Kirsten brings up the Estrogen-tallness story on the BB (we have a
number of six-foot women who post)
<http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/forum/feminism0204b/messages/04165057
3.html>, Tim Peck and Brad disagree about the meaning of the recent Heritage
Study that shows a link between marriage and low incidence of abuse
<http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/forum/feminism0204b/messages/58982216
9.html>.
If you like your contact more personal, then mark down this Sunday at
9:00 EST. That's when you can join Sunni and other "chatters" in the
jointly-sponsored ifeminists/mensactivism chat room.
<http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/chat> I'll be dropping by myself,
just to say "hi!"
Now ... onto the main event.
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Gun training class offered to abused women
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The Oregonian
"In what appears to be a national first, a Portland gun
group is offering free handgun training to any battered
woman who wants it -- a defensive strike against
homicidal men and what it sees as a growing push for gun
control in Oregon." (04/12/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/489840116.html
Women flood Canadian military
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Toronto Star
The Canadian military has recently enrolled more women than
at any other time since 1989, when the Canadian Human
Rights Commission ordered virtually all military occupations,
including combat roles, opened to both sexes. (04/15/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/807990454.html
Rape: silent war on South African women
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BBC
"On this the police, politicians, sociologists and rape
survivors all agree. There is a silent war going on, a
war against women and children. It is a fact that a
woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being
raped, than learning how to read." (04/09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/601830977.html
Russian troops use rape as weapon
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Scotsman
"Russian forces have raped and sexually assaulted women
during winter operations in Chechnya," according to the
Human Rights Watch. The Russian government is
unresponsive to reports of such crimes. (04/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/483531802.html
Abused women may have greater refugee claim
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Sydney Morning Herald
Women suffering domestic violence in their home countries
may now have a greater claim to refugee status in
Australia following a High Court ruling, which found in favour of
an asylum-seeking Pakistani woman abused by her husband
and family. (04/11/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/352773272.html
Bush says 'ban the clones!'
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Yahoo/Reuters
"In a speech evoking images of embryo farms, custom-made
children and desperate women pressured into selling
their eggs, President Bush urged the Senate to outlaw
all forms of human cloning." (04/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/354665225.html
Woman's agony over rape case
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BBC News
"She was ready to give evidence in the case against a
stranger accused of raping her in her own home. But when
the case got to court an alleged confession was ruled
out because the defendant was found to have a low IQ." (04/08/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/955788436.html
Estrogen given to 'too tall' teens
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Women's ENews
"[T]all pre-teen girls are being treated with high doses of
estrogen to suppress their growth, lest they become what
some physicians would describe as 'too tall.' The
hazards have not been studied." (04/07/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/485529795.html
Three priests oppose ban on gay marriage
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Boston Globe
"[B]reaking with the church hierarchy, three priests took a
stand yesterday against the gay marriage ban, citing
Catholic teaching on social justice and calling the
amendment discriminatory to children born to gay
parents." (04/11/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/496860532.html
Choose Life license plates ready to roll
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Concerned Women of America
"CWA and other groups backing Louisiana’s 'Choose Life'
license plates won a major victory when an appeals court
dismissed a legal challenge to the plates." (04/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/121953976.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
After I was raped
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Guardian
by Susan Brison
"I sang to myself as I set out, stopping along the way to
pick a few wild strawberries. An hour and a half later,
I was lying face down in a muddy river bed, struggling
to stay alive." (02/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/139574873.html
The effectiveness of sex abstinence programs
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Heritage Foundation
by Heritage Domestic Policy Studies Department
Using the premise, "Teenage sexual activity is a major
problem confronting the nation and has led to a rising
incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs),
emotional and psychological injuries, and out-of-wedlock
childbearing," this Heritage backgrounder concludes that
abstinence education is working. (04/08/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/540105530.html
Survey shows men do housework
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Glenn Sacks
by Glenn Sacks
"Men are doing at least as much household work as women,
according to a new survey conducted by the University of
Michigan Institute for Social Research." The study shows
men do approximately 14 hours more housework a week than
women. (04/15/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/762437283.html
The battered truth syndrome
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Washington Times
by Michele Malkin
Malkin writes, "'Battered woman syndrome —- the politically
correct legal rationalization for letting coldblooded
female killers off the hook —- is now an issue in the
California governor's race." Malkin discusses the court
case that has both major parties taking positions. (04/12/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/766967569.html
The profit motive in child support errors
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CNS News
by Dianna Thompson
Teresa L. Kaiser, executive director of the Child Support
Enforcement Administration, alleges that Maximum, a
private company that administers child support
enforcement, has manipulated client cases to improve its
performance scores, inflated its scores for establishing
paternity and collected more money than was owed. (04/12/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/790299153.html
The remastered race
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Wired
by Brian Alexander
Artificial chromosomes and in vitro screening are giving
new life to the eugenics debate. The question is not
whether we want to engineer embryos but how far it
should go.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/822920787.html
Feminists abroad -- ugly Americans?
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USA Today
by Constance Hilliard
In watching how American femnists are imposing their
agendas on a global level, Hilliard wonders, "we
American women are becoming little more than
ethnocentric, jet-setting busybodies. In trying to impose
our supremely individualistic Western agendas on family-oriented
non-Western societies, are we genuinely making the lives
of those women better?" (04/11/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/832882030.html
Looking askance at Bush's $300 million matrimony plan
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Washington Times
by Bruce Fein
"Is government presumptuousness boundless?" Providing legal
precedents of government's bungling of the marriage
issue, Fein asks, "Wouldn't it be refreshing if
politicians humbly confessed that facilitating happy
marriages was beyond their ken and vocation?" (04/09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/494122240.html
Firm fights against state-funded abortion
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Agape
by Rusty Pugh
"Last year, a trial court in Arizona ruled that taxpayer
funds had to be used to pay for abortions for poor women
under the state’s Arizona Health Care Cost Containment
System. The Center for Arizona Policy appealed the
ruling, and it was reversed. Now, attorneys for
pro-abortion activists have appealed to the Arizona
Supreme Court." (04/09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/670714329.html
Conviction rate for rape falls precipitously
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Equity Feminism
by Brian Carnell
"A report about rape prosecutions in Great Britain recently
found that the rate of conviction had fallen from 1
conviction for every 3 cases brought to trial in 1977 to
just 1 conviction for every 13 cases brought to trial in
1999. Why has the conviction rate fallen so sharply?"
Carnell explains. (04/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/342350289.html
Why abortion matters
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Boston Globe
by Editorial staff
"The decisions whether and when to have children, whether
to marry, have a career, pursue higher education, even
whether to run for elective office -- these are the real
freedoms that reproductive rights confer on American
women. In 2002, the phrase 'abortion rights' is not so
much about abortion as it is about rights." (04/07/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/123554145.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Online Books and Collections <==
Transcripts of the Salem witch trials
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University of Virginia
The Salem witchcraft papers: verbatim transcripts of the
legal documents of the Salem witchcraft outbreak of
1692.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/468588370.html
For more Online Books and Collections see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/e-texts/
==> Introductions and FAQs <==
Political correctness: the scourge of our time
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News Max
by Agustin Blazquez with the collaboration of Jaums Sutton
"Political Correctness remains just what it was intended to
be: a sophisticated and dangerous form of censorship and
oppression, imposed upon the citizenry with the ultimate
goal of manipulating, brainwashing and destroying our
society." (04/12/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/147725387.html
For more Introductions and FAQs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/brief/
==> Scholarly and In-Depth Studies <==
Women and entrepreneurship in California
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Pacific Research Institute
by Donna Matias
"A new PRI study finds that California taxes and
regulations hinder women-owned businesses and discourage
entrepreneurship by women, especially working mothers."
(Adobe Acrobat) (04/09/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/749327938.html
The prep-school PC plague
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City Journal
by Heather MacDonald
"The diversity industry—the profession paid to harangue
Americans about racism and sexism—has burrowed deep into
the nation’s elite prep schools." MacDonald explores the
negative impact this has on academic excellence and upon
racism itself. (04/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/801319938.html
Marriage is safest place for women, children
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Heritage Foundation
by Patrick F. Fagan and Kirk A. Johnson
Despite PC feminist claims, analysis of the 1999 findings
of the National Crime Victimization Survey demonstrates
that mothers who marry are far less likely to suffer
from violent crime than are mothers who don't. (04/10/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/461552788.html
For more Scholarly and In-Depth Studies see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/in-depth/
==> Audio and Video <==
History of individualist feminism
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zetetics
by Wendy McElroy
Fourteen minute audio excerpt from a lecture by Wendy
McElroy delivered at the University of Waterloo on
individualist feminism.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/467373454.html
Audio of show on domestic violence against men
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Al Rantel Show
by Glenn Sacks and Marc Angelucci
Men's issues columnist Glenn Sacks and Marc Angelucci of
Stop Abuse for Everyone (SAFE)discuss domestic violence
against men and Glenn's column, "Domestic Assault on
Baseball Player is no Laughing Matter." From the Al
Rantel Show of 4/5/02.
http://www.free-market.net/rd/474489388.html
For more Audio and Video see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/multi/
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