In a message dated 98-03-02 19:39:43 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Hello,
Is there any feminist friendly replacement for a not nice woman or
usually called "bitch". That word anthropomorphized the real bitches, female
dogs. Its hard to avoid using it.>>
Well, a bitch is a female dog and to reduce a female woman to the status of a
female dog is, i suppose, to say one doesn't value that female woman's
perspective a whole lot. Nonetheless, i agree with your reluctancy to say
that word in anger. You could call her a witch but that would be unfair to
another set of people. Hmmmm. Maybe you should bipass the reduction of what
offends you to a trite lable and just get really focused about what it is
about this person's perspective you dislike and really let yourself acknowlege
your own perceptions as such and then just, let it go, off into your
surrounding environ, as consciousness.?
Sharisha
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 3 06:07:06 1998
by imo25.mx.aol.com (IMOv13.ems) id GBTEa26880
From: Locustbean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:06:53 EST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Why Give Birth?
OGG
I hope you do realize that by asking your question through utilizing EcoFem
your results will be seriously skewed.
In any case, I would be happy to participate if you would like to contact me
directly.
Anne
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 3 07:27:12 1998
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:27:06 -0500 (EST)
From: "Elizabeth L. MacNabb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: The Nation Article (fwd)
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>>By Katha Pollitt, in this week's _The Nation_:
>>
>>"Hello, Columbus"
>>
>
>> J ust when it seems like the official media have a total lock on
>> political
>> discourse and nothing will ever again be said except by designated
>> experts in pancake makeup, just when you think the last raw bit of
>> reality has been plastic-wrapped and priced like a slice of
processed
>> cheese food--just when, in other words, you are about to consider
>> getting seriously depressed--something wonderful, bizarre and
totally
>> unscripted happens.
>
>> I am thinking, of course, of the February 18 CNN "Town Meeting" on
>> Iraq at Ohio State University in Columbus, featuring Secretary of
>> State Madeleine Albright, Secretary of Defense William Cohen and
>> National Security Adviser Sandy Berger. Here was an occasion that
>> would seem to have offered about as much chance for the unexpected
>> as a pharaoh's funeral. It was worse than propaganda, it was
>> propaganda privatized: The Clinton Administration manufactures a
>> spectacle of consent by normal red-blooded Americans to the
>> bombing of Iraq, which it offers to a giant news conglomerate.
This
>> corporation then twists the already-bent occasion to fit its own
>> commercial needs: banning other news organizations, structuring
the
>> discussion around advertising breaks, using the crowds who had
come
>> expecting a two-way exchange of views to bolster a false image of
>> robust free speech. Not exactly one of those ideal speech
communities
>> Jnrgen Habermas talks about! On the floor of the sports arena,
>> carefully chosen likely war supporters--veterans, R.O.T.C. cadets,
>> students enrolled in a military history class. Up in the balcony,
> barred
>> from even the chance to submit a question for prescreening,
everyone
>> else.
>>
>> Including, through an amazing oversight that White House aides
>> publicly bemoaned for days afterward, some 200 to 300 local
antiwar
>> activists--old-time activists, students, clergy, anarchists, union
>> people--who proceeded to make an impressive fuss. (Moderator
>> Bernard Shaw's reference to maybe a "dozen" protesters was, of
>> course, a lie.) Chanting. Heckling. Interrupting. Unfurling a
>> banner--NO WAR--that one woman had smuggled in under her skirt.
>> The protesters made so much noise that, after seven ejections and
one
>> arrest, a CNN producer agreed to let one of them ask a question if
>> they agreed to pipe down. Jon Strange, a 22-year-old substitute
>> teacher (who was, let it be noted, properly dressed and wearing a
tie),
>> asked a 64,000-dollar one: "Why bomb Iraq when other countries
>> have committed similar violations?" He mentioned Turkey, which
>> bombs the Kurds; Saudi Arabia, which tortures political and
religious
>> dissidents; Indonesia, which has slaughtered hundreds of thousands
of
>> East Timorese; Israel, which has been censured by the United
Nations
>> for bombing Lebanese civilians and brutalizing the Palestinians;
and he
>> could have mentioned many other nations as well.
>>
>> Down on the floor, Rick Theis, a writer and former O.S.U. student
>> body president, was originally first at the mike but was denied
the
> right
>> to speak when he refused to let CNN prescreen his question and
>> ejected when he protested this censorship. By dint of much vocal
>> protest, he managed to speak at the very end of the evening, and
he
>> asked some good questions too. How can you call this a town
>> meeting? How do you sleep at night?
>>
>> Too much free speech equals a major public relations disaster. In
a
>> stunning reversal, the very factors that had given the pro-war
>> discourse the false appearance of monolithic consensus also made
it
>> vulnerable. Take conglomeratization: Thanks to CNN's global
>> dominance, the whole world really was watching. How could the
>> Clinton Administration persuade foreign governments of a course of
>> action so dubious it couldn't even persuade its own citizens? (Not
>> even Ohio supports the bombing, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
>> said a few days later. Why should Egypt?) Take the media
>> near-blackout of weeks and weeks of antiwar actions across the
>> country. Suddenly people with questions about the bombing could
see
>> they weren't alone and never had been. "I got phone calls from
people
>> all over the country saying our protest gave them courage to do
things
>> in their own communities," Strange told me when we spoke by phone.
>> "I think we cut through people's feelings of isolation and
>> hopelessness."
>>
>> Now if Jon Strange and Rick Theis and their fellow protesters had
>> been, say, first graders suspended for kissing classmates, they
would
>> have been on every talk show in the country the next day--like the
>> veteran who wondered at the town meeting if we're "ready and
willing
>> to send in the troops." Was this not a news story? Did it not have
a
>> hook, an angle, timeliness, human interest, edge and attitude--all
> those
>> things we leftists are constantly being told we lack when we ask
why
>> the mainstream media short-shrift our perspectives and reject our
>> Op-Eds? After he'd had dinner and calmed down, Strange told me, he
>> called Nightline, CNN, a newsroom at ABC and the Associated
>> Press. "No one was interested." Only Pacifica's Democracy Now!
>> and a few liberal-hosted regional talk shows invited Strange or
Theis
>> to be a guest. Theis's well-written and eminently newsworthy
account
>> of the evening appeared not in The New York Times or The
>> Washington Post but in The Lantern, O.S.U.'s student paper,
>> where, I must say, I found a level of discussion both of the town
>> meeting and the proposed bombing itself that easily equaled that
in the
>> mainstream press.
>>
>> Columbus wasn't the only protest sidelined in the reporting. An
>> appearance by Albright at Columbia, South Carolina, was met with
>> demonstrators (best placard: Clinton: Make Love, Not War). U.N.
>> ambassador Bill Richardson was confronted with such an unruly
>> audience at the University of Minnesota that he left without
speaking,
>> a story no major paper saw fit to print.
>>
>> An interesting clue to the willful media misperception of
widespread
>> antiwar feeling lies in the persistent suggestion that the town
meeting
>> protesters were members of the famously sectarian and pugnacious
>> Spartacist League. No one I spoke to from Columbus had seen a
>> single Spart. I asked peace activist Mark Stansbery why he thought
>> the press would say such a thing. "Maybe because we were so
>> aggressive," he replied. "People don't expect that of Ohioans."
>>
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