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• • 30 Nov 05
  • 11:00 am

  HURRAY for you, Pete Stark. Of course, you are completely correct here. The state of the American educational system, its endemic inequality in particular, is threatening our future. Jan VanDenBerg

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• • 30 Nov 05
  • 12:12 pm

  Johnny -- you are just wrong. The Times has access to the work of dozens of very talented successful feminist women who could provide good material about women's issues. The New York Tiimes doesn't want them. The Times has deliberately chosen to choose THESE women to write drivel which undermines the women's movement and mistakes rich women for women in general. The choice of articles is made by the editors. There is no dearth of excellent material out there. Why isn't Barbara Ehrenreich a contributor to the Times Op-Ed page? Now that is a well-known, widely-read woman with something of import …

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• • 30 Nov 05
  • 12:24 pm

  Johnny -- you are wrong on another front, as well. The main strategic error of the women's movement is NOT failing to attack successful women who don't hew to their "line." It is in the failure of the women's movement to actively EMBRACE women who have succeeded in a man's world by looking, acting and thinking in a "man-like" way. That is to say, in a selfish, acquisitive, rational, ambitious, money-making, possibly even right-wing-looking manner. The women's movement is weakening itself by dividing into, on one hand, a group of separatist lesbian utopitans, and on another, a group who trails along …

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• • 03 Dec 05
  • 1:53 am

  kimaszi: Thinking about it a bit more carefully, I realize that it is not "feminism" which has failed to accept and include money-making businesswomen. It is the LEFT. The mainstream LEFT. The mainstream left too frequently gets so caught up in its anti-capitalist anti-money attitudes that it has alienated core feminists and core feminist ideals, which are certainly at least about getting women into positions of power. Having money is essential to power. If women don't make money, who will fund pro-woman causes and foundations? If a high-earning female, say, bond trader or real estate developer, tries to make contact with …

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• • 04 Dec 05
  • 2:40 pm

  Johnny: I think there is already far too much criticism of other women by women in our society. Our first instinct is to attack one another. It's all behind closed doors? You must be deaf. Women attack one another constantly. And besides that, you have RAMPANT competition for male attention. We need to REDUCE this behavior, not step it up. It is NOT women's fault that the powers that control everything deliberately set us against one another by picking out from among us the most retrograde, patriarchy-collaborating back-stabbers among us to promote and amplify. That is the fault of the powers-that-be, …

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