I recently heaved a sigh of relief. Judy Rebick, CBC host and feminist extraordinaire is on record saving “it was pos sible to be a wood feminist and like to have sex with men.” Not that have ever been a good feminist, bit te hear Ms. Rebick graciously s tion sex with men convined me feminist thinking was as original as ever (Fam being cynical, of course }. To tortify the ideological slucige within which feminist thought has been mired, Rebick dredges up, in her recent Ef Street column, some quotations from Germain Greer’s new book, The Whole Woman. A highfalutin version of Mex Are from Mars and Women Are fram Venus, Greer offers up a Kafkaesque vision of women’s situation in thy world. We are oppressed by everyone from retailers, to gynecologists to cosmetic companics. (Don’t women work in these fields?) Aad we are subjugated by our other halves who, when they are not scheming on incest with mailbox Canada’s Dear Editor: I feel 1 must add my two cents worth to the recent “boat people” fiasco. Our government's immigration policies leave much to be desired and have done more to foster racism and resent- ment than anything else. These ocople were res- cued, fed, clothed, housed from what has been described as horrible conditions, aboard a flaating death trap, They apparently had = American moncy in their possession, and were able to pay thou- sands of dollars for this both barre manne fair rom ment their daughters, or beating up onus, are driven by feral appetites to lap up permogra- phy. Pornography is always the crucible tor teminist argu- ment. That same women enjoy it, make it, and pro- duce itis never considered, More of the stagnant nature of feminist debate was evident over the pages of Tre Vancouver Sun's au courant weekend Mix. Two feminists, one a writer, the other an historian, teemed up against Douglas Todd: white, male, middle vlass, and author of a piece proclaiming that feminists should retire. To disabuse them of their ignorance, the feminist writer recommended males read some original feminist tracts. When the name Andrea incredible journey. Yet once housed and fed, they had the audacity t go on a hunger strike! Not only that, but [ under- stand we, as taxpayers, must foot the legal-aid bill and wel- fare they will receive until Dworkin appeared on the recommended reading list, I had to chuckle, Andrea Dworkin is the feminist whose supple mind gave birth to the assertion that all sexual intercourse between man and woman is rape. But f will let the scholar and iconoclast Cami: Paglia, desuribe Dworkin for vou: “Dworkin has turned a garish history of mental insta- dilicy inte feminist rand open” writes Pagtia. “She publicly boasts of her bizarre multiple rapes, assaults, beatings, break- downs and tacky trauma, as if her inability 10 cope with life were the patriarchy’s fault rather chan her own, “Dworkin's shrill, kvetch- ing, solipsistic prose has a sloppy, squaliing infantilism.” For Paglia the teacher, “the Girl with the Eternal Cold” is hard to tolerate. Dworkin was “the pudgy, clumsy, whiny child at sum- mer camp who was always spilling her milk, dropping her lollipop in the dirt, get- ting a cramp on the hike, a stone in her shoe, a bee in her hair this type — pasty bil- ious, and frumpy — ts con- their refugee claims can be processed! We treat these peo- ple as honoured quests when they have no legal right to be here, have destroyed or never had documents, and are co- conspirators in an illegal human smuggling operation, is at fel stanly sick from fall co spring.” Enough said, and hail to real tem Payita, We shift venues trom the arid arena of feminist thought toa feminist fove test proper Phe scene ts the much hyped Power of Women Conterence. The panel consists of the world’s most inthiential women. Among them are “feminist icon and co founder of Ms. Magasine” Gloria Steinam, former astro- naut Mac Jemison, and Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes. The report in Te Sun (Aug. 6) spoke of an atmos- phere replete with Oprah moments, As women cried, laughed, hugged, and massaged one another, they also regurgitat- ed the Gred anti-male agit- prop: “a woman who strives to be like a man lacks ambi- tion.” On a giant sercen senti- mental obscenities kept flash- ing, one of which read: “You are the altar of love upon the planet, your responsibility is to hinpast to vour children that they are the light of heaven upon the earth.” land of the free is far too free The word “sucker” must be written across the map of Canada tor all the world to see and take advantage off Canada the land “for free™ come one, come all —~ “for free.” Dorothy E. Zora North Vancouver For Your Health = Friday, August 27, 1999 — North Shore News — 7 t hope the children have such a big screen ar the day care centre. All children need, after all, is Mom's cheesy self adoration. By the by, this Mick production aimed at working professional women vosted $329 3 head. Se much tor tne alleged inchisive non- middle: class nature of North American feminism. The metaphor chat best captures women's growing, selt-centredness and self pre- oocupation is that of a black hale. The more women turo inward the heavier their cen- tre of gravity becomes and the more likely they are to collapse upon theniselves. And this has happened. Second-wave feminism, which is the kind promoted taday, is not liberal and eschewing of humanity at large. As Melanie Phillips wrote in the March 19 issue of the Times Siterary Supplement: “New feminism embodies an oppressive and authoritarian culture of grievance and chronic offense.” Leave offideology and look to the facts on the ground; “Women continuc to st faiderai live years longer than men.” writes Ferdinand Mount in the same TLS issue. “Five times as many young men as women commit suicide, men are twice as likely to be unemployed and find it twice as hard to get another job, inen are infinitely more likely to saffer industrial accidents and diseases which may destroy their lives.” Naturally, adds the writer. “none of these apparent dis- advantages begins to conipare with the misery” that femr- nists Hike Germain Greer claim is women’s daily lor, To get on track feminists would have to quit their pen- chant for anti-intellecrual, mythical, dishonest thinking; give up their bogus statistics on violence against women and lack of parity in the workplace; give up striving for preferential treatment and equality of outcome rather than equal opportuni V3 give up the priggish disdain for the man-woman tension that makes the world go round; and above ali quit whining and show some universal, non-affiliated conypassion, even to men, —gnome@attcanadu.net VE Ol, Lube & Filter " 21 pt. 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