anti-feminist ad campaign coming to college campuses (fwd)

[ASUW Womens Action Coalition]

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Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:12:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Susan D. Kane <suekane at u.washington.edu>
To: ewomen at u.washington.edu, asuwomn at u.washington.edu, uwvox at u.washington.edu,
     womens at u.washington.edu
Subject: anti-feminist ad campaign coming to college campuses


FYI, folks.

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Susan Kane				suekane at u.washington.edu
Reference/WS Librarian			Box 353080
University of Washington		Seattle, WA 98195
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>From WMST-L

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I also want to call your attention to an article I saw today in
Women's Enews: "Anti-Feminist Ad Campaign Launched on Campus." It's
about a "Take Back the Campus" campaign that's been started by the
conservative Independent Women's Forum (the same group that sought
to discredit the MIT Report on Women in Science--and no, please,
let's not re-revive THAT discussion!).  The IWF has placed ads in
three college newspapers, at UCLA, Dartmouth, and Yale.  Here are
the first two paragraphs from the Women's Enews article:

> The full-page advertisement minces few words. "Combat the Radical
> Feminist Assault on Truth," reads the banner headline. "Are you
> tired of male bashing and victimology?" asks a sub-headline.

> The ad goes on to list "the 10 most common feminist myths,"
> challenging, among other things, statistics on college rapes,
> domestic violence and women's pay inequity.

You can read the entire article by Vera Haller at
http://www.womensenews.com/article.cfm/dyn/aid/566

It sounds as if the IWF is gearing up for a more widespread
campus "campaign" in the fall.  Forewarned is forearmed.

    Joan

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U. of Md., Baltimore County  http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/
Baltimore, MD 21250          http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/

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