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the unplastic news #6 the lopsided issue
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Thoughts | redspread.css.itd.umich.edu
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B. Hathrume Duk | quartz.rutgers.edu
Bride Guide |
Quotes |
Things odd | or by subscription by sending e-mail to:
Exposing Sexism |
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Lopsided Education |
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LOPSIDED (lop'sid'id), adj. noticeably heavier, bigger, or lower
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want
to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw
again as long as I live.
Erica Jong
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Florynce Kennedy
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Associated Press:
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Berkeley, CA: A University of California student who regularly comes to
school naked will have to dress for class under a new campus rule.
Andrew Martinez has been arrested for nudity three times, but courts
dismissed the charges because his behavior did not qualify as "lewd and
lascivious" under California law.
Martinez says he bares all to protest society's insistence that people wear
clothes.
Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien issued an edict on Wednesday banning public
nudity, sexually offensive conduct and indecent exposure at the university.
The new rule does not cary the force of law, but it will allow police to ask
people caught naked to leave campus, said Lt. Bill Foley of the campus
police. If they refuse to leave, they can be arrested for trespassing.
"The mission of the university is to teach," said spokesman Bob Sanders.
"Anything that is disruptive to that can't be tolerated."
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The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two
sexes--the legal subordination of one sex to the other--is wrong in itself, and
now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and it ought to be
replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on
the one side, nor disability on the other.
John Stuart Mill
The Subjection of Women (1869)
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Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Dorothy Parker
Not So Deep as a Well (1937)
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Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for
women demands a change in the human psyche more profound then anything Marx
dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.
Polly Toynbee
Guardian 19 Jan. 1987
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to
join in checking this mad, wicked folly of "Woman's Rights", with all its
attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every
sense of womanly feeling and propriety. Lady-- ought to get a good
whipping. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot
contain herself. God created men and women different--then let them remain
each in their own position.
Letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870
From Queen Victoria
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Kids Talk About LOVE
by David Heller
(Reprinted without permission from "Cosmopolitan")
What Exactly Is Marriage??
"When somebody's been dating for a while, the boy might
propose to the girl. He says to her, 'I'll take you for
a whole life, or at least until we have kids and get
divorced, but you got to do one particular thing for me.'
Then she says yes, but she's wondering what the thing is
and whether it's naughty or not. She can't wait to find
out."
-Anita, 9
Concerning the Proper Age to Get Married.
"Eighty-four! Because at that age, you don't have to
work anymore, and you can spend all your time loving
each other in your bedroom."
-Carolyn, 8
"Once I'm done with kindergarten, I'm going to find
me a wife!"
-Bert, 5
What Do Most People Do on a Date??
"On the first date, they just tell each other lies, and
that usually gets them interested enough to go for a
second date."
-Martin, 10
"Many daters just eat pork chops and french fries and
talk about love."
-Craig, 9
When Is It Okay to Kiss Someone??
"You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough
bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, 'cause
she'll want to have videos of the wedding."
-Allan, 10
"Never kiss in front of other people. It's a big
embarrassing thing if anybody sees you....If nobody
sees you, I might be willing to try it with a handsome
boy, but just for a few hours."
-Kally, 9
The Great Debate: Is It Better to Be Single or Married??
"It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm
just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble."
-Will, 7
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Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the
foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Cynic's Word Book (1906)
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In August in Eugene, Ore., Rick Geoffroy opened Lollipops,
a juice bar for people 18 and older, which will feature
topless female dancers. Geoffroy said Lollipops is aimed for
men 18 to 20, who cannot attend topless bars that serve
liquor. (Nor can under-21 dancers hustle alcoholic drinks
from customers, but they can hustle juice drinks.) Geoffroy
told the Eugene Register-Guard that he believes the
community "needs more activities for young people."
News of the Weird
Chuck Shepard
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Entertainer Tiny Tim, enunciating his educational philosophy to
the Associated Press: "If kids, after eight or nine years old,
aren't doing good in school, put them to work. Repeal all those
child-labor laws... . You can tell at eight or nine if school's
doing any good. If it isn't, don't let them linger there.
The Progressive
September 1992
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"Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant."
Edinburgh, 29 Oct. 1867
"Upon the education of the people of this country
the fate of this country depends."
House of Commons, 15 June 1874
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
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If you rearrange the letters in: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER THIRD
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The slotting of black children into lower tracks, according to the
Public Education Association of New York, is a familiar practice in
the city: "Classes for the emotionally handicapped, neurologically
impaired, learning disabled and educable mentally retarded are
disproportionately black..."
SAVAGE INEQUALITIES
Children In America's Schools
a Must Read by
Jonathan Kozol
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"In the old days," my mother said in a puzzled vioce,
"if you had a date, with a man, he would pick you up
at your door. Everything seemed polite. Then, as soon
as you got into his car, he would drive around the block,
unzip his fly, and put your hand on it. It was unbelievable!"
-- Tama Janowitz
"The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group"
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"Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds."
Johnny Rotten.
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ADVICE GIVEN TO BRIDES IN 1894
INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE
On the Conduct and Procedure of the Intimate and Personal relationships of
the Marriage State for the Greater Spiritual Sanctity of this Blessed Sacrament
and the Glory of God by Ruth Smythers, beloved wife of the Reverend L.D.
Smythers of the Arcadian Methodist Church of the Eastern Regional Conference.
Published in the year of our Lord 1894, Spiritual Guidance Press, New York City.
On the...wedding night... the bride must pay the piper, so to speak,
by facing for the first time the terrible experience of sex.
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: GIVE LITTLE,
GIVE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY. Otherwise... a
proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust.
Sex is at best revolting and at worst rather painful... Feigned
illness, sleepiness, and headaches are among the wife's best friends in this
matter. Arguments, nagging, scolding, and bickering also prove very
effective... A good wife should expect to have reduced sexual contacts to once
a week by the end of the first year of marriage.
The wise bride will pay equal attention to limiting the kind and
degree of sexual contacts. Most men are by nature rather perverted, and if
given half a chance, would engage in quite a variety of the most revolting
practices. These practices include among others performing the normal act in
abnormal positions: mouthing the female body: and offering their own vile
bodies to be mouthed in turn.
A wise bride will make it her goal never to allow her husband to see
her unclothed body, and never allow him to display his unclothed body to her.
Sex when it cannot be prevented, should be practiced only in total darkness.
Once a bride has donned her gown and turned off all the lights, she
should lie quietly upon the bed and await her groom. When he comes groping
into the room, she should make no sound to guide him in her direction, lest he
take this as a sign of encouragement. She should let him grope in the dark.
There is always the hope that he will stumble and incur some slight injury
which she can use as an excuse to deny him sexual access.
The wise wife relentlessly pursues her goal first to limit, later to
annihilate completely, her husband's desire for sexual expression.
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"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education."
Will Rogers
Autobiography (1949)
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Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party forthrightly staked out their
opposition. The party's 1992 platform declared: "We oppose the Bush
administration's efforts to bankrupt the public school system-the
bedrock of democracy-through private school vouchers." Critics dismiss
the Democrats' position as special-interest politics, since the
teachers' unions are a major constituency. But in fact the Democrats
are defending the long-term interests of most American families.
Despite conservative propaganda to the contrary, 89 percent of the
country's 48 million elementary and secondary students are in
public schools. And the overwhelming majority want to stay there.
William Greider
Rolling Stone Magazine
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When I was traveling in Oregon last week, I saw a wonderful
political button. Oregon Measure 9 (which was defeated) was the
anti-gay measure. The button read:
Nerds against 9
Remember it could have been us.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient
evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz
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