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» CALL her G. L. Josephine.
i have been awaiting her ar-
‘rival for a long time now.

She has bright red punk-style

hair, wears knee-high boots and
., Carries a sub-machine gun. -

One does not mess with her. She
does not have “victim” written on’
. her. 1

She has another name, | should
say: Zarana. That’s the name given:
to her by the manufacturers. And »
it is the term my own sweat little |
Emily prefers to use.as she plays ~
with her, although of course she °
gets it slightly wrong, thrée-year-
‘old style.

It surprised me that it took the
war toy manufacturers so long to
dare to put G. I. Josephine, a.k.a,
Zarana, on the market.“

She leayes good feminist ,
-thinkers and kind folks who don’t:
like war toys somewhat at odds, 1
should think; at the very feast with.
an intriguing little debate on their”
hands £0 far as the hard-boiled —
Techead war toy's psychological

° impact is concerned. ;
Does she not serve the feminist.
.* cause of empowering women? |
Does she not; at the very least,
~ mitigate against the Barbie Doll ;
- syndrome? ‘Weak and helpless, she:
ain dC
‘Come on iow, le s ook at. this

-, I want my ‘daughters to.

sec images of women wiih power. “
» Certainly, they are lucky enough to °
“have their mothers in front of ©" ~
them, fairly two- fisted Jadies; both:

‘But beyond thai, Llike seeing;
_  igirls accepting the possibility of | ;
| being warrioresses 2s well as”

stewardesses, I salute the Boadicea’ .

LA RARE bi of wilderness ainidst
“residential ‘property ® in the! Court.’

‘day.:

‘The ‘land, “a acent : a taeeen
_wood ; /Park! drops westward" ‘from .
" Grand Boulevard ‘to Ridgeway. ‘at
23rd Street. -It was’ set aside. for

park” use .in 1912. and. has. never’ .

"been: developed; but ‘in 1980°a -
» former’ city council designated the:

land single-family residential in,the °

_ there is no good reason why every |

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buried deep inside every woman!
I'm not one of those males wha’

is heavily into needing to dominate

women. I don’t like seeing women

/ being pushed around, I won't tol- |
erate the slightest physical harming

of them. "
If this is chauvinism, it is at least

‘benign, you'll have to'agree. On|
_ the other hand, i'm not madly into’

gratuitous violence, and would be.
just as happy if everybody in the
world Jearned to ferid for :
themselves. 9° = :

Hf the odds are uneven, even
them! Barring a physical disability, |
i}
woman in modern society couldn't |
be trained in karate or judo or a.
hundred other self-defence tech-.
niques, many of which actually
work.

G.1 Josephine isn’t exactly the

: Sunshine Girl, although there is

certainly nothing wrong with the
Sunshine Girl, bless her. It's just
that the G.I. gal conveys a dif-:

.ferent message.

Itisa message every bit as im- -
portant’as the message that says:
Come hither, big fella; G.1.

daughter, Justine, happens to be
taking Tae Kwan Do...
She is 21 years old and only”

“recently took up martial arts. 1...

, have been urging her to doi it, since,

* she was alittle girl.”

‘Some ideas take longer. to find.

3 acceptance than others, but at least:

‘she appreciates | the wisdom of it”

now, and is trying to make up for":

“house area, will be Ron Va for =

- Official Community Pian: In {987%

¥, the council voted to begin to sub-''

“divide it: ‘into seven: lots : and ; sell. 7

tion’: .

ie On’ ‘Monday, © ‘the “current:

‘aldermen defeated ‘a motion'4-3 to-
refer a rezoning application to the.’
i Advisory: -Pianning © Commission

ficial Community Plan to: : preserv

i the. park. The decision’ “means: the;

land ‘will remain undeveloped | and
zoning. bylaws and. OCP will: des:
ignate it park | land?’

Speaking ‘in favor. of. maintain
ing the’ ‘park,’ ‘Ald. Rod Clark ‘sai
he gets, thrill ‘out of living in close’
‘proximity... ‘tol the small ‘plot “of “

_wilderness: known ‘as Block. 220A)...

” He argued the :city does not, need -
“the-revenue ‘from the’ Sale. and the’

local: resideiits: ne voiced ‘united

*s | and:then voted to amend the Of-.

_all that iost time when she could.
° have learned to kill with her bare.

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It's strange about women and . ene * — ee
their relationship jo violence. | just
saw an incredible piece of film iA
journalism about women in prison.
Many of them are covered with
scars. Nobody stabbed (hem. They: '
stabbed themselves. “Slashing,” i
they call it. (
When a man breaks under the:
pressure in prison, he attacks
someone else.The women don't
seem to know how to push their
pain and rage outward. They at- : j -
This is’ of course a corollary to LOWBACK! $349. =.
allowing themselves to be hurt by | ° ;

men. , J "Do people need ergoonbroteally designed

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smallness can be used to advan- furniture? Most experts say yes.
tage. Size is no longer the sole

determining factor in physical . ASK THE CHAIRMAN

combat.

Sure, it would be an ideal worlé et reasonable Poy ey /
where war toys were spurned by! ’ Seen f
everyone. It would also not be a a . ; answern ose
human world as we know it. :

! I personally think that such j in- ‘f
j ventions as G.I. Joc, like por- § 9S 84-DESK
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: desublimating devices. They work |
Josephine’s message being: Bug me i
.and you're dead meat, bay.
By, coincidence, just as the fiesty ..;
| female action character -~ ‘‘doll'’
: just doesn’t work — is being o
_.Feleased. or unleashed, my cldest”

off aggression more than they : : ; ; Catheart a

r stimulate it.: Po “

In any event, I was watching: :

| Emily playing with G.L. Josephine Office Furniture

the other night when I realized an

“:} amazing thing had happened. Emi- ff
| ly had thrown away the red- haired a & Stationery |

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