The McGill Daily Culture Vol. 81 No. 051: January 9, 1992

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McGill Daily Culture 3
Local bands jam on Just Listen compilation
by Carrie Hintz ingsuch different bands side by side. represented might have to deal with
According to Heistek, "Anything we the fact that its impact on their mar
A new cassette compilation of put out would be eclectic." keting potential will probably be
fers an interesting-albeit limited Thetaperunsthegamut-from "pretty negligible". College radio
-opportunity for Montr~alartists what Heistek calls the "processing DJs may be put off by the fact that
to be introduced to new ears and frenzy" that is Quite Ridiculous cassettes are difficult to cue and not
audiences in the city and beyond. Nonsense, to softer and more acous always of a high quality. CKUT it
The Just listen cassette is part of tic sounds.
self is playing selections from the
a series produced by "All Genre The six-member group Kalimba tape frequently, to warm reviews.
Monthly Music Report", a Boston Kalimba uses three kalimbas The positive feedback that CKtJf
based publication which lists new (known to most as thumb pianos}, volunteers have received about the
releases as well as contacts and in drums, and the occasional flute or cassette has piqued their interest in
formation about particpating violin to produce subtle and poign creating more ways of exposing
bands. The compilation was assem ant work. Freaky D's hard-hitting McGill students to bands they prob
bled byvolunteers from CKUTwho rap style and her political and sexual ably wouldn't ordinarily hear.
screened dozens of local bands in candour are a welcome presence on Heistek states that her group is
order to make the collection possi the tape.
highly responsive to bands who have
ble. Also of note is Rhythm Activ expressed interest in becoming part
From all reports, they're happy ism's witty "7-11 Heaven", whose of future collections.
with the fruits of their efforts. "It ironic portrayal of a world without Another goal for future produc
was a good idea," said CKUT assist either junk food or junk culture is tions is to increase the francophone
ant director Genevieve Heistek. rich and thought-provoking. representation, although the quirky
"Canadian bands rarely have the CKtJf sells the whole package at Poulette, described by Heistek as a
know-how or the money to distrib the station for S6, a price which "bluesy late night jam", is already a
ute themselves in the States." includes the cassette and All Gen strong presence on the Just Listen
"What I discovered," she added, re's monthly music report. Each
cassette.
"was that there were a lot of excel band is allowed a page to wax elo Heistek notes: "I'd like to think
lent bands in Montr~al." quent about their own virtues. that people would like to sit down
But due to financial constraints, Slaphappy 5's vision of them and put this in their machine."
many of these bands are unable to selves is energetically presented in Given the weird and wonderful
reach their full musical potential, their cartoon entitled "The Caffeine sounds drifting from my machine,
said Heistek. Just Listen is an effort Sessions", tracing the origins of such she's right. If you like your signals
to increase their audiences and cel tracks as "Squeal, Ned, Squeal" and eclectic - even confusing-or if
ebrate their efforts. "I believe my own Lies" not to men you're suspicious that popular mu
The usual tendency would have tion the all-too-brief "You Even sic is becoming more packaged, less
been to try to keep things all one Smell Like you have a Problem". idiosyncratic, and devoid of indi
style, but the Just Listen package Still, many bands worthy of in viduality, Just Listen presents some
successfully flouts that convention, clusion had to be left out. Even those convincing evidence to suggest that
despite the unease evoked by hear- fortunate enough to have their work you may be wrong.
Too many honey-babies on the three-o'clock train
by Rebecca Conolly live for broadcast at CBC studios. The vaguely countrified sound And Mackenzie does show some rangement, including the bohdran,
The songs were written and pro stems from the band's use of a man variety on the album. Two of my mandolin and lap steel.
When I saw local band Mack duced at different times between dolinand theelectricviolin, though favorite songs, "Some Evenings Mackenzie is unquestionably a
Mackenzie and the Three O'Clock 1985 and 1991. their instrument of choice remains Never End" and "This Train" (both talented musician, though his
Train open for Billy Bragg, I was not Mack Mackenzie's sound is very, the accoustic guitar. from 1991) are in themselves very songwriting does leave something
impressed. They had a dull stage dare I say it, Canadian. Consider a Mackenzie wrote the music and different. to be desired. Yet, he definitely
presence and all their songs sounded cross between Ne il Young and lyrics for nine of the songs by him The former is a warped love bal shows growth and improvement, as
the same. So I was a little skeptical Robbie Robertson, with just a hint self, and had help from Will Barber lad with somewhat simplistic yet the more interesting songs were all
when I was presented with Macken of Geoffery Kelly of Spirit of the for the other two. Most of songs touching lyrics such as, "My tears produced in 199l.lt is not an album
zie's third album to review. West fame. draw on the theme of love gone will never rain inside a heart so cold/ that I would rush out to buy, but I
But I was pleasantly surprised. The Daily talked to Mike awry (such as "Honey Please Put As lay alone in bed, lonely body, suggest listening to it if you get the
This is definitely a group that sounds Stuchbery from MJ Management, Down that Gun"}, frequently ex lonely soul", with a beautiful piano chance. Canadian talent can always
better on vinyl than at the Spec which handles Mackenzie. He listed pressed through images of travel, accompaniment. use some support.
trum. the Rolling Stones, John Prine, Neil especially on trains. The latter has a quick rhythm Stuchberysaid that Mackenzie is
Entitled "It takes a lot to laugh, it Young and The Credence Unfortunately, the music gets and very simplistic lyrics: "Things busy with his songwriting and that
takes a train to cry" (courtesy of Clearwater Revival as Mackenzie's repetitive and the lyrics contain too you do/ Things you say/ Turn me they are planning a tour for next
Bob Dylan}, this album contains 11 greatest influences. This accounts much of the baby/honey stuff, but blue", along with an upbeat and year. But you can catch him on the
tracks, 3 from the NFB film Train of for his borderline off-tune singing the mere catchiness of the songs invigorating overall sound. It also 18th, at the Shadow du Lac on the
Dreams and 5 which were recorded and slightly droning voice. makes this quite bearable. has an interesting instrumental ar- West Island.
4 McGill Daily Culture Thursday, January 9, 1992
THE MCGILL DAILY
COMMENT
The identity-politics chain
Every December, at the Canadian University Press national confer
ence, a Racial Equality Resource Room is established to provide education
on racial issues.
This year, the caucus of people of colour at the conference asked that
the room be shut down.
Since its inception, use of the room by white delegates has been low.
The Racial Equality Caucus said the level of apathy was painful for
resource people and caucus members to confront year after year.
Delegates debated whether closing the room was the best way to
respond. But in a supposedly progressive organisation, the situation
itself is telling.
It's typical of white university students to presume that race is not a
major problem. Along with class, it is the issue least-understood by the
typical 'socially-conscious' student.
This attitude is promoted by a reconfiguration of history which
makes it appear slavery was an aberration and the Civil Rights move
ment was widely-supported by North American whites.
Apathy about race is also promoted by pervasive 'identity politics',
which imply that the important thing is to understand and combat one's
own 'oppression'.
While this concept is rooted in important processes in the feminist,
gay liberation and Black Power movements, it can also be applied
blindly. White feminists can ignore their complicity in racism. Men can
decide they need their own movement. .It's easy to go digging for inner
children.
Because so few people of colour have been permitted to set the
agenda, race has ended up low on the identity-politics chain. The
popularity of the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual and Women's Resource Rooms
at the CUP conference made it clear which issues the delegates were
comfortable confronting.
The neglect of race is all the more foolish if you look at changing L E T T E R S
demographics, inside and outside the universities. And David Duke's workers atthcCFSAGM in Ottawa arc awareness and collective action
successes in the States, like the atrocities of the MUC police closer to false and without any substance. concerning world hunger.
home, demonstrate that race is a crucial issue in the contemporary The letter, which is addressed to me, Paternalistic journalism These issues were not addressed by
passion play. ncverreachedmyofficcunti!Novcmber To the Daily: Mr. Roslin. When he claims that
The Columbus controversy and other recent events have created 19, four days after your newspaper I am writing in response to Alex "MlDSA's main activity is to help a
some public space for First Nations issues. But this debate has not been called me and asked metocommenton Roslin's feature ofNovember 21 on the handful of studncts apply for
matched by improved understanding of the marginalisation of other the substance of the letter and the role of a particular development group govcrnmcntgrants",hc is blatantly lying
allegations. In fact, I was first shown a oncampus;CoopcrationNow-McGill and obviously has never attended one
peoples of colour. White Canadian students in fact seem to be ever more
copy of the letter by our student International Development Students' ofourwccklymectings,heldThursdays,
confident in assuming education on racial issues.isn't necessary.
newspaper, the Sheaf, on November Association. I am an active member of 17h30 in the multiculturalloungc.
Although CUP voted to keep the Racial Equality Room open, there's
IS. How does a letter addressed to me this group and feel that we have been I personally resent his arrogant
a lot that remains to be done-at CUP and at home. get to student newspapers across greatly misrepresented. assumption that our multi-faceted
Dan Robins Carl Wilson
Canada first? ,---~---=~-=------------. group conccntratesonlyon one
Kate Stewart Katerina Cizek Your skills as journalists are thing (Youth Initiatives
highly in doubt when you print Program). As a dedicated
direct quotes both from Nancy CNOW -MIDSA member, I am
L E T T E R S
and her letter without first personally not even involved in
confrming the allegations made theY .I.P. program .I do however
Really bad news Another theory, Why the Hell is throughanothersource.Icxpect support my fellow members
To the Daily: Saddam Husain not being charged with a full apology and retraction who arc aware of the functions
The gulf war was really bad news, war crimes along with Bush by this oh from your newspaper to Nicolas and goals of this group and feel
really. I mean it. I sit safe (I'm not a so well-meaning Tribunal (I wonder and myself. I'm not fully aware they were grossly
woman) in North America and did not who's paying for it). Why can't we look ofthestudent politics in Qu~bec misrepresented in the article.
rcallyknowwhat was going on. However at the whole scene? The dirt is but if you wish to be taken i Mr. Roslin also makes
the Dailydoesn 't know what really went everywhere. seriously,Isuggestyoumarkedly I: assumptions about our
on there either. Until Saddam is charged this group improve the journalistic definitions of development,
What I know is this: Iraq destroyed is just another propaganda parade. A integrity of your newspaper. quoting people who have· a
Kuwait and then the U.S. destroyed lot oflittlc boys and girls died in Kuwait, Thiswholeincidenthascasta problem with the word
Iraq. Mr O'Bricn and Mr Montin but they were rich so I guess we don't shadow on my character and udevelopment". Well, I have a
suggest that Iraq was somehow have to cry for them. reputation which is unjustified and you Within this association, Ih ave worked problem with the word as well. However,
provoked into destroying Kuwait to Pierre l.aRocque have only added to the problem with on issues such as a Discussion Series MIDSA members and I have an
protect its economy. This is perhaps Drama U4 your sloppy journalism. I also request focusing on: ethical issues in admittedly self-defined notion of the
not so far-fetched, but to imply that thatyousendmeacopyoftheapology development, the El Salvadoran term. Had Mr. Roslin taken the time
Kuwait played an active role in its own you will be printing. struggle, the Debt Crisis and the future and energy to explore that definition
destruction is just silly. Journalistic skills Regretfully. direction of development studies.) have with the diverse members of our group,
0' Bricn and Mo n ton keep saying the To the Daily: Mark Magnuson worked with non-government hewouldhavcdiscoveredthatitinvolves
"evidence suggests". What evidence? I am writing in regard to the article Canadian Federation of Students, organizations and grassroots groups to active self-determination and
Show me what you've got. Is it photos your newspaper printed. The Saskatchewan Chair; learn more about the Montr~al progression on the part of repressed,
or documents or what? accusations Nancy Hepingstall made VP-Internal progressive development community. exploited and seemingly voiceless
There were a lot of really spectacular accusingNicolas Plourde and myself of ussu I have worked on the spreading of
continued on page 7
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Thursday, January 9, 1992
The McGill Daily 5
no soa
by Kale Stawart
Within the gay and lesbian movements today, zine with its roots in the Montreal gay scene.
fanzines serve iis the alternative press, according to "I had some of my own things to say," said Jenkins,
Montreal zine publisher Nicholas Jenkins. "but I'm not into punk, and other zines were very New
And none more so than Jenkins's own Fuzzbox. York-specific."
Fuzzbox is not a soapbox. It has very little editorial
content and it does not theorise about movements.
Reader Glen Betteridge said Fuzzbox is "a reflection of lt's here, it's queer
reality, not a fantasy world of skinhead fags and Peter Bird, avid fanzine reader, calls Fuzzbox "strictly
fetishization, leather and skin piercing." queer". According to Bird, this bent is a far cry from the
Betteridge subscribes to Fuzzbox. He called it "a hardcore punk roots of the fanzine phenomeon. "I
thinking-person's magazine" in which, "the written prefer fanzines that deal with more diverse themes," said
content is political in its interest. It challenges a lot of Bird, "like music and feminism and the punk subcul
gender roles and stereotypes. It's progressive, but it's ture."
not knee-jerk." Jenkins himself sees thezineasaforum for queers. He
The Fuzzbox approach is far from typical. In an defines "queer" as "anyone who is different from the the
interview with a male hustler, the question asked is norm. Someone who is not accepted by the main
not "Why do you do it?" but "Why do you need a day stream." For Jenkins, this includes drag queens and
job?" This style has attracted many readers, and transvestites, and it is different from "gay".
Fuzzbox is in high demand whenever it comes out. "Gay is when you want to be accepted because you are
But Je nkins is modest about the impact of the zine. the same, except for your sexuality. Queer means you've
"Fuzzbox is really sexually oriented," he said. "I'd got to accept us for what we are, and that is different."
been collecting porn for a long time, and I wanted a The first issue of Fuzzbox was published two years
way todemystifyit, to poke fun at it, but also celebrate ago, and it comes out only once or twice a year. The latest
it. I'd seen some other fanzines and I really liked what issue is called OutCometlaeFreaks. The table of contents
was being done." promises "Faggots Galore", "Justine and her Pussy",
Jenkins was influenced primarily by fanzines }.D.'s "Juicy Fruit &Co.", "Sex Garage", and "Whirling Les
("a gay punk homocore zine from Toronto") and bian Dervishes". (But this is mild stuff when you compare
My Comrade/Sister ("a New York drag queen it to the content of some of the articles.)
\ fanzine"). Most of the written contentofFuzzbox is in interview
' "The Toronto fanzines created skinhead -fags," says form. This is why it is often described as being "more
Betteridge. "They didn't really exist before the individualized and human" than many fanzines with
m a g a z i ne s came out." more editorial pieces.
-1 Jenkins's main purpose in A lot of the photos in this issue have been sent in by
I starting Fuzzbox was to fans, which Betteridge called "a really nice touch". Oth
ere- ate a maga- ers have described the layout and graphic content as
"polished".
)enkins has never had much trouble with censorship.
"I just don't sell it where I could have any problems, and
I'm careful not to use the name of the 'zinc when I send
it in the mail," he said. "Sometimes the stores will
wrap it in cellophane to avoid trouble."
When a new issue is published, it can
usually be found at !'Androgyne at
3636 St. Laurent. Otherwise your
best bet is to send SS cash and
postage to Fuzzbox, C.P.
5231, Sue 'C',
Montreal, P.Q.
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6 McGill Daily Culture Thursday, January 9, 1992
Long live bacteria!
by Peter Clibbon our yogourt." northeast end
Meloche described how Delisle could be the
Few people would admit to be technicians encourage their small truck's destina
inghumancannibals.Onlyaslightly .quantities of European-imported tion, but that
greater number would admit to eat stud bacteria to multiply in 'the could have serious
ing other sorts of creatures that are fermentation room'. implications.
still wiggling. Yet most people would "The original bacteria regener
admit to eating spoonfuls of living ates itself in enormous tanks. After Given the
and squirming bacteria, often in we get enough yogourt, we place warm, wet envi
the form of yogourt. them in the little containers." ronment within
Guy Meloche is the director of Meloche said workers in the the mountains of
marketing for LesAliments De lisle, yogourt factory burst into a flurry rotting trash, any
Quebec's largest producer ofbacte of activity when Hydro-Quebec remaining living
rial food products like yogourt, decidesit'stimeforapowerouttage. yogourt dumped
cottage cheese and sour cream. The backup generators have to be at the site could
Meloche said most people aren't started up immediately so the vats find the landfill a
put off by the ethical considera of tepid bacteria don't spoil. If the reproductive
tions of eating live food. technicians didn't work fast enough, paradise. The
the results could be a yogourt whole quarry
"I don't think people are wor Bhopal. could become an
ried so much about the little A more complicated problem is oozing, spreading
bacteria. You could only see them getting rid of dead bacteria. Meloche yogourt lake.
under a microscope." described a mysterious truck that And no matter
He contrasted Delisle to the periodically visits the factory. He what the ethical
manufacturers of frozen yogourt, didn't know where the truck took dilemmas,
which freeze the yogourt in a cryo the remains, but he knew the serv Montrealers
genic process which usually kills ice costs Les Aliments Delisle a would probably
the bacteria. "We don't make fro bundle. rather eat yogourt
zen yogourt and we don't He said it would be possible that than the other way
recommend anyone else freezing the Miron quarrylandfill in the city's round.
Kooky Kroker book a post-natural high
The Possessed !ndividual: losophers has succeeded in spite of own reactions to infection by the in passing, much less the attempts ter, in the relevant cases) appar
Technology and the French itselfin describing the actual opera virus of American technology. of non-white theorists to give some ently straight. So if, as its hype
Post modem tions of technology in North genuine weight to the much proclaims, "The Possessed Indi
Arthur Kroker American society. Kroker hints that ballyhooed "Other" who haunts so vidual rubs America against
New World Perspectives what philosophers from Sartre and Phallocracy rules OK manyofthesephilosteronemedita contemporary French thought," the
Montreal, 176 pp., 1992 Camus to Baudrillard and Virilio These ideas are seriously weak tions. goal of all the rubbing seems to be a
Marilouise Kroker and her hus- have considered ruminations on the ened by Marilouise's absence: All the art, film and jabber anato boys' -school circle jerk.
band Arthur have spent the past political, rhetorical and social shifts Arthur doesn't even mention the mised in the book is male, white As well, Kroker's sampled cho
several vears spread in~ at the speed of the times have actually been their existence of french pomo feminists and (unless the reader knows bet- ruses are Brating sometimes:
of meningitis througn Canadian
"exhausted brilliance", "the last and
bookshops.
best of the ... (Cartesians, Kantians,
Their books and anthologies of
saints, etc.)", "imminent reversibil
anti-social theory have exploded
ity", "American hologram", "he
from our presses into the
became what he sought to describe".
"postmodern scene" with a
And when too many of them ap
Katzenjammer excess many of their
pear in one sentence, a small and
colleagues have considered unbe
noble voice urges the reader to
coming of sober Concordia
throw the book across the room.
University profs. .
But resist your better instincts,
Other people, justifiably, find
and The Possessed Individual will
them tiresome. Their books are
provide a Coles-Notarised trav
stuffed with multi-syllabic, some
elogue through the basics of French
times barely-readable exegesis on
pomo guys at their best and worst,
hip media, hip theory and "panic/
with occasional diversions through
crash/catastrophe" intellectual fash
territory like MichaelJackson's col
ion. They're infatuated with their
lapsing nose, the Oka Crisis, the
own ar1 courant-ness, and at several Gulf War, an experimental film
books a year, they don't seem to
about Moose Jaw, and shit-eating.
know when to shut up.
These sideshows, I'd submit, are
But I have to confess to having
worth the downtime spent watch
softened, even cottoned to the
ing theoretical elephants try to
Krokers. Perhaps their persistent
balance on each other's trunks,
assaults on my cerebellum have
though not the cock jousts.
weakened the tissues, but Art and
More and more, I'm convinced
Mari make me titter. Worse, I some
the best use of this hypertheory
times agree with them.
pomo thang would be to put out a
That confession made, I would
weekly black-humour zinc in which
cautiously call your attention to
current events, TV shows and pop
hubby Arthur's solo flight, The Pos
music would be regurgitated, run
sessed btdividual.
through the French filter and drunk
Part of a series called
down again.
CultureTcxts, which seems dedi
So please do buy this book. If
cated to spewing out as much
they make enough money, maybe
Krokerology per minute as the mar
we could convince the Krokers to
ket can handle, The Possessed
fund the zine. The giggles would
Individual veers from typical Kroker
compensate a bit for these days of
sloppiness and extravagance to
"zero-tolerance" and too-frequent
moments of more genuine insight.
hash shortages, not to mention the
Its thesis, ifit has one, is that the
fin de millenium.
canon of French postmodern phi-
- Car/ Wilson
Thursday, January 9, 1992 McGill Daily Culture 7
LETTERS
continued from page 4 its first years" has never "helped itself to
peoples all over the world. Perhaps a slice of every development contract
"paternalism" is his definition of' received by a McGill professor".
journalism, but it is not mine of Founded in 1980,'McGill International Yuppies:
development. received its first 5 years of financial
Kclly MacCrcady support outside of the University, from
U3Arts the Macdonald-Stewart Foundation,
and during this start-up period there
were very fewCIDA-supported McGill
Cut the rhetoric
projects. the
To the Daily: Regarding administrative costs
Alcx Roslin 's third article (N ovcmbcr (overhead) received by McGill, this is
28) on Canadian foreign aid program part of a standard process negotiated
("How McGill takes a cut from foreign on behalf of all Canadian universities,
aid") continues a distorted form of McGill departments participating in
journalism by combining inaccuracy projects receive a share of the word
and inference with quotes from administrative payment according to a
anonymous professors (why would they uniform system.
be afraid of being identified?). Not mentioned by Roslin is that
McGill International (MI) has never McGill professors from 7 different
selected McGill projects to be submitted faculties arc presently directing over 30
for funding and never selects which CIDA-supportcd projects in 22 according
department is to receive a grant after countries, the highest level of such
Canadian Government funding is involvement of any Canadian
approved. The selection process is University. Let us hear in the Daily
established by the Canadian more about these specific projects and
International Development Agency your readers can decide whether they to
(CIDA). All submissions arc prepared "benefit people in impoverished
by McGill staff, not by MI . countries" and not just Canada.
Does MI act as the go-between for I again challenge the Daily to cut the ·
McGill staff and CIDA "without any rhetoric and report on what is being
input from professors"? This false actually accomplished through McGill's
accusation would come as a surprise to International development project Harry
many McGill professors who have direct involvement.
links to CIDA staff and programs. Eugenc Donefer, Director
Contrary to Roslin's source of McGilllnternational
information, McGill International "in
H Y D E P ·A R K The Boo mer Bible a history of the world, contained in Here's an example, from
the Past Testament, to a recap of Annenburghers 10:1-7:
by R.F. Laird
-Opinion by Erik Rutherford. American culture and the word of
Thomas Alien & Son, 1991 Rat-a-tat-tat -a-ratta-tatta
Ultimately "A Place for Ethan", the all-male forum addressing Harry, the prophet. Along the way,
$19.95, paper tat-a-ratl
sexism, failed to justify its exclusion of women. The group's stated it lists all possible stereotypes and
intention to carry on a "necessary" and informal discourse among men, cheap shots. This is a news bullet from the
so that they can "help raise awareness and challenge the preconceptions You're not going to like this Harrier Television Net
of other men" made me a little suspicious. Once again, as has always book. It's sick. But you'll read little Whole Books in the Past Testa work. Margo Glamour
been the case, men are leaving women out, but this time from what is bits of it anyway. It's the sort of ment are devoted to the "Spies", reporting.
precisely women's: the fight against sexism and patriarchy. book you are likely to find in some "Brits", "Krauts", "Yanks'.', "Frogs",
Obviously, men have a necessary relation to feminism since it is they one's bathroom, sitting next to the "Russkies", "Beaks", "Chinks" and A spokesman for the federal
who should change. Furthermore, since the woman's e.xperience of Mad magazines. "Nips"; explaining the history of government today re
oppression is the starting point for modern feminist practice, men That's what I plan on doing with the world in terms of the "Chosen leased theresultsof a grim
cannot possibly take the same position in relation to the female posi my copy. Nations". "Chosen" in modern new study.
tion. But as objects offeminist analysis and those who cause patriarchy, terms, that is: rich and powerful
men must for once in history LISTEN to what women are trying to tell This book contains something (though these countries may no Which predicts that every '.
them. to offend everyone. It claims to be longer be either). one in the nation will
Instead, it seems some men have heard enough and neec to separate the product of a punk movement The Others are those that were experience some form of
themselves to see what they can say about it. Their desire to be subjects from South Philadelphia. Suppos- never chosen, including peoples of cancer.
or even forerunners in feminism is the last move in their long history of
"colonization". What will we have next? A heterosexual forum on Within the next five years ...
homophobia that disallows homosexuals? THE HARRIERS' BRAVER
The fact is, women have greater insight into the man's experience mUR FRIEND. WHO ART IN RIO. HARRY IS YOUR NAME. The study was based on a
then men do into the woman's. Women have always watched men sample of four laboratory
YOUR TIME HAS COME. YOUR WAY IS FUN. UP NORTH.
doing things: Arguing, fighting, passing laws, firing weapons, assault rats ...
AS IT IS IN RIO. WE LIVE FOR TODAY AND ARE RARELY
ing, talking, talking, talking ... Not that there is any shortage of men
BLAMED. WE FORGET OUR TRESPASSES. AS WE There'slotsmoreofthisfoolish
taking an interest in women-As one man in the audience pointed out,
FORGET THOSE WE HAVE TRESPASSED AGAINSl. ness, and I certainly didn't have the
"If you want a place where men get together alone and talk about
WE YIELD TO TEMPTATION. BUT ARE NOT EVI.L. FOR THINE IS time to sit in my bathroom and read
women, just visit a fraternity. What makes this any different?" The
THE WISDOM. AND THE POWER. AND THE GOLD. FOR AS LONG it all. And unlessyou'refrom Philly,
problem is that men do not listen to women. Women, though, simply
AS IT LASTS. or Pennsylvania at least, most of the
must be more aware of"men's culture" for their own safety, and also SO THERE. references will go over your head.
because of their inferior power position.
Not being even remotely aq uainted
On the other hand, it would be supreme hypocrisy for a men's group
with the area, I didn't find the
to actively organize feminist events. Women's groups rarely exclude edly it lays out the truth about the the First Nations. They are covered Present Testament nearly as satiri
men from their meetings (if they do, it is empowering anyway), and Baby Boomers - "The Boomer quickly in one Book. · cal as the Past Testament.
even more rarely do they ban men from rallies and other events. If these Way", as it's been handed down by Then there are books that ex
So I flipped to the Punk Testa
men want to set themselves apart from and challenge their violent, sexst popular culture, the media and a plain things like General Relativity, ment, which contains a
male population, they should just stop being sexist AND support what prophet with a warped sense of of Sigmund Freud and Capitalism ...
pseudohistory of the writing of this
women are doing. fensiveness.
Bible. There is a condensed version
In the words of one organizer: "We don't have society at large to de In a pointless attempt to copy "Anyway, America will make so of all the preceding stu(f and finally
condition ourselves. The Women's Union does not have the time or theoriginai"Good Book", thewhole many new thirtgs that things will a prediction of the coming of the -·.
agenda to deal with men ... In the end, only men talking amongst thing is laid out in chapter and verse, become the most important thing way of the punks. Whatever that is.
themselves can bring about serious change ... The mere fact this exists is with extensive footnotes. It's huge. in life ... " (Adam 20:1-2)
I am not sure this book ~rves
a pretty good first step." The only thing to recommend it is "In this way, a day will come
any purpose. It will probably ap
Is the first real step, then, when men create their own agenda? Are that it contains remarkably fewer when common ordinary people will peal to folks with money who want
men so silenced in our society that they must demand a private forum? contradictions than the original. be able to judge each other by the to laugh at themselves. If Boomer
As the discourse continued, it became painfully obvious that the group Accuracy, on the other hand, things they use and own." (Adam culture already offends you with its
would have to meet with women's groups if it was to be supported by may suffer somewhat-the history 30:1)
hypocrisy and grabbing for more
anyone. is all from the victors' point of view. The problem with this book is (check out the nifty cover graphic),
"A Place for Ethan" (poor name), despite its good intentions, will For example, in the history of the that it's so damn depressing. It can
this book will give you something
show no profit. As one woman had pointed out to a man in the audience, Yanks, African-Americans are only be really funny at times, until you more to gripe about. But don't ex
"It is just a bunch of senstive guys getting together to confirm that they dealt with when they were slaves. think about the truth behind its pect to laugh, it's all too true.
are sensitive." This paperweight runs through irony.
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