I love the scrapbook - it looks like they're actually a feminist action group - they dress up like "ladies" and protest anti-feminist women like Phyllis Schlafly by pretending to support them with over-the-top slogans. Total ridicule.

I want to become a LAW!

I particular like this picture.

I say we should organize chapters and hold bake sales outside Canadian Alliance conventions. And hey, I'm a member of the CA, so that would just be so fitting!

[ November 22, 2002: Message edited by: Michelle ]

I know that several Alliance policies are not popular on babble, but implying that they're sexist is a pet peeve of mine.

Some of the CA's strongest speakers are self-starting, tough as nails, thoughtful, pro-active WOMEN. Go tell Diane Ablonczy or Val Meredith that she's a cowed woman, then duck.

Some of the grassroots members are blue-haired ladies who want the age of consent to be 21 and women to not leave the kitchen, but you can't judge the entire party on that, you're going to find that group when you are on the right and from the west.

There are PLENTY of reasons for you to not like the Alliance, I'm sure, but the attitude towards women -at least at the national level- isn't one of them, IMO.

Wanna pick on a sexist party? Read up on the Christian Heritage Party. I interviewed a candidate for them once. Whooooo!

http://www.chp.ca

LOVED the LAW, btw.

[ November 22, 2002: Message edited by: Trinitty ]

Click!

(I especially enjoyed "Why Women Should Support missle Defence.")

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We are published in conjunction with a fairly new Washington-based organization, the Independent Women's Forum, a gathering of women from various political and professional backgrounds: Many are mothers as well as, say, lawyers and some are simply mothers and others simply lawyers but none are simple-minded. The Quarterly hopes to interest and challenge them (and sympathetic friends) with articles that might be rejected by more blinkered women's publications.

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I keep saying it over and over "we got to kill off all these "old ladies" before we can consider ourselves liberated".

Heres a real winner from one of their newsletters

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Mommy Will Be Home After The Bombardment : Peter Worthington observes that women soldiers make good peacekeepers if questionable mothers

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How long has the IWF been around? I have never heard of them,either they do not make themselves a public presence or I truly do live under a rock.Apparently they've made it to the senate.

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To paraphrase Goethe, the IWF is not independent, it isn't about women, and it isn't much of a forum.

[ November 25, 2002: Message edited by: Ruby Tuesday ]

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I keep saying it over and over "we got to kill off all these "old ladies" before we can consider ourselves liberated".

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I just have to register how much this bothers me! Trust me, there are plenty of women around of any generation who are anti-feminist.

And I particularly resent this on behalf of my wonderful 83-year old grandmother! I think she would be massively pissed to hear anyone dismiss her entire generation this way. My grandmother is very feminist, and has always been, and very vocal about it. I learned so much about owning my own body from her, and her very outspokenness on birth control and abortion.

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To paraphrase Goethe, the IWF is not independent, it isn't about women, and it isn't much of a forum.

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can you speak more about this, ruby?

[ November 28, 2002: Message edited by: anna_c ]

"That's what fundamentalism breeds no irony all words are taken literally"

Bill Hicks

PS: Please no dead white guy comments. Bill's Cancer trumped that back in '94