Cathy takes time

- out to tackle the

[REOPE
ay

big burning issues

Dancing Through Life in a Pair of
Broken Heels, Mickey & Cathy
Guisewite, Bantam Books,
$17.95. Everywoman’s Golimania
Handbook, ‘Natalie V. Rogers,
distributed by Gordon Soules
Books.

ATHY DRIVES me
crazy! Cathy who?
Cathy the comic
strip character, of course!
The stereotyped single, mother-
‘dominated, body-obsessed,
. organizationally impaired career
“ woman whose stereotyped
- $ports-zombie boyfriend Irving is
_. unable to make a commitment,
" forcing her to lavish thwarted love
"on her obnoxious yapdog Electra!
I suspect that Cathy is, in fact,
Little Lulu, now. grown up, and
© that Irving is actually the adult
+ Sluggo..* es
vt What kid named Irving wouldn't
* rather be nicknamed Sluggo?
And if you hold an old tle Lulu
“comic and a Cathy strip up to the
“light backwards while playing
*. Stairway to Heaven .. butd
«= digress... be
‘Stereotypes get to be stereotypes
by reyeonyees eet 0 be stereotyp
representatives of the culture in

° which they occur.

\ They are the funhouse mirror in
‘which we see our mediocrity
: ‘amusingly reflected.
Cathy actually reminds me of
“most women | know and Irving
reminds me of ... Well, never
mind.”
: Prelaced with illustrations by.
“Cathy; these “Extremely Short
* Stories for the T otally Stressed’’ are
» written by sister. Mickey; not that it
: matters, since they both share the
same sense of humor about men,
: mother and The Meaning of Life.
“: (Wouldn't you love to be a bat
- in the rafters when the brothers-
in-law get together with a six-
pac k2) ve

“in what is essentially a collection ..

of non-visual comic strips for peo-
ple who'don't move their lips |
when they read, the sisters take on
_ Such burning big questions as why
“mirrors and lights in women’s fit-
": ting rooms make the human fe-
male body look like something
that stepped out of a UFO and
“why a man who can't sit through
“= one romantic movie can watch the
“2 same instructional golf video 93
“consecutive times,

- University Women launch
“autumn membership drive |

CANADIAN FEDERATION of Uni-

versity Women (CFUW) West
Vancouver has launched its 37th
‘year with a membership drive.

Letters of invitation. have been |

‘sent to more than 1,000 women
“who are graduates of UBC living in
» West Vancouver. This invitation is
extended to women ‘graduates of
all universities.

Founded in 1919, the CFUW isa
federation of over 130 clubs across
Canada whose. members are all

_ women graduates of accredited

universities from around the
world, :
. The 1993-94 year marks the
organization's 75th anniversary.
“  CFUW is a member of the Inter-
national Federation of University
Women, an affiiiation of 59 na-
tional federations and associations
around the world.

its members are committed to
the pursuit of knowledge, the

John Moore
ROOK REVIEW

‘West Van author Natalie Rogers
could answer the latter question -
without missing a long putt.

Since golf is inherently funny,
she’s half-way round the course
before she tees off on the distaff
side of this game in which people
dress in-ridiculous clothes and
spend big bucks to pursue
pointless exercise. |

(Hey, doesn’t that pretty much
describe cycling, rock-climbing,

_skiing, curling, aerobics, wind-
surfing...?)

When ! got to page 60, where

. she observes that “quite a few
activities are almost impossibie to
perform while holding onto a golf
club and it sure plays havoc with
-your sex life,’ | resolved that if
Her Nibs ever shows the slightest
interest in this game I'm going to
urge her to entoll in Tae Kwon Do
or combat pistol shooting instead.

_ Unlike most golfaholics or
polfmaniacs, Rugers holds on to

er perspective and sense of
humor about a “sport” that, like
curling (sliding rocks on frozen
rivers), is really just something
Scottish people used to do before
television was invented. . -

Whiskey may also have played a
role, since » ‘.as the effect of
making ab:.rd things seem like

‘ood idza at the time."

igure it’s only a matter of time
befor people whose pocket
change exceeds their !Qs are
forking out serious money to join
country clubs devoted to “‘tass-
ing the caber’’ (throwing the tele-

‘phone pole), another quaint Scot-
tish pastime.

"In fact, the Garibaldi Highlands
Caber-Tossing Club (conveniently
located in my back yard) is now
accepting members.

Greens fees are one loonie, of
course. BYOB (Bring your own
beer). : ;

Come to that, bring your own
pole. And a truss.

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' promotion of education, the im-
provement of the status of women
and human rights, and active par-
ticipation in public affairs.

Locally, clubs sponsor fundrais-
ing projects and events to provide
scholarships and awards. to
women students.

The fall program for monthly
meetings includes:

Oct. 18 - Overview and Future
Development of the Port of Van-
couver, ‘

Nov. 15 - Changing Architec-
ture in West Vancouver - What
Next?, with Michael Geller.

Dec. 6 - Members cf the B.C.
Boys Choir.

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Meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. at
West Van Presbyterian. Church,
2893 Marine Dr. All university
women graduates are. welcome.
For further information call Ruth
Gunn at 922-4570.

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