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Monthly Archives: July 2001
A Pyramid Scheme with a Feminist Twist Hits Great Britain
The Sunday Times recently ran a story about a pyramid scheme that has tricked thousands of women out of their money in Great Britain. The pyramid scheme uses semi-feminist rhetoric about women’s empowerment to sell its get rich quick message. … Continue reading
When a Mother Kills
Donna Laframboise wrote a perceptive article about the way violence by women is perceived differently than violence by men. Laframboise notes that last summer there were two prominent Canadian domestic violence cases. In one instance a man from Pickering, Ontario, … Continue reading
New York Man’s Attack on Wife Costs Him Fortune
The legal fight in the wake of Aftab Islam’s savage 1999 assault on his wife recently produced yet another landmark legal ruling when the New York State Supreme Court ruled that his assault on his wife was so shocking that … Continue reading
Massachusetts Parole Board Acts Quickly on Amirault Parole Request
At the beginning of July the Massachusetts state Parole Board gave Gerald Amirault new hope that his long nightmare might be finally coming to a close, after it recommended commuting his sentence. Amirault was a victim of the 1980s hysteria … Continue reading
Genital Mutilation — It’s Not Just for Women
Female Genital Mutilation has received a lot of attention over the past decade for very good reasons — the practice is abominable. Another dangerous form of genital mutilation doesn’t receive as much attention, however — traditional initiation rituals in some … Continue reading
The Washington Post Finds NOW Television Analysis Mystifying (So Did I)
The National Organization for Women recently released its second annual look at major television networks which included some bizarre choices. NOW ranked programs based on their gender composition and diversity, level of violence, sexual exploitation, and social responsibility. But their … Continue reading
Are Female Tennis Players Being Shortchanged?
Sports Illustrated‘s Rick Reilly was outraged last week at Venus Williams being shortchanged after winning Wimbeldon. While men’s champion Goran Ivanisevic walked away with a $705,109 purse while Williams received only $652,186 (as Reilly puts it, “she earned about a … Continue reading
The Death of Feminism?
A few years ago, the National Organization for Women published an essay by author Jennifer Coburn attacking the Independent Women’s Forum. The article, Don’t cry for feminism: It’s still alive, dismissed feminist critiques such as “Christina Hoff-Sommers [who] say they … Continue reading
NOW Elects New President
In June the National Organization for women elected executive vice president Kim Gandy to take over the organization for outgoing president Patricia Ireland. The change at the top of NOW is unlikely to mean very little change for the direction … Continue reading
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On Motherhood and Successful Political Movements
Last week two of the most prominent anti-gun groups, the Million Mom March and the Brady Campaign/Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence announced they would merge effective October 1. The groups tried to spin the event as two large groups … Continue reading