At NYU, I serve on the E-board for WomIn's Herstory Month (sic). With the frenzy of Super Tuesday, feminism is on my mind. So I thought I'd share this e-mail my friend sent:
I think it's always important to remember that, as Taylor Mali says, "changing our minds is the best way of figuring out whether or not we still have them."
Maybe a change is in order...you tell me. Open yourself up to these for a moment. It might be crazy, but then again, it might be true.
1. NPR interview interview with Robin Morgan, co-founder of The Women's Media Center.
2. The second is Morgan's essay, "Goodbye to All That #2"
3. The third is Hillary Clinton defying the U.S. State Department and the Chinese Government at the 1995 UN World Conference on Women in Beijing.
4. And... this voice, age 21, in "Commencement Remarks of Hillary D. Rodham, President of Wellesley College Government Association, Class of 1969."
Links:
1. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18815436&sc=emaf#em...
2. http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ex/020108.html
3. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/hillaryclintonbeijingspeech.htm
4. http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1969/053169hillary.h...
On a side note: for a school that is 60% women, NYU has no women's center and women's organizations struggle to program events and fill rooms because the movement doesn't have real support. so you should all e-mail NYU and tell the to support 60% of their student body.
I'm not saying I disagree with you ... but look at your comments:
"NYU has no women's center"
... is there a "men's center?" If not, why complain?
"women's organizations struggle to program events and fill rooms because the movement doesn't have real support."
If there's no support, how do you expect a program to survive? If there's no support, obviously not enough people care.
"so you should all e-mail NYU and tell the to support 60% of their student body."
If the movement doesn't have enough support at NYU itself, why would people outside of the school, who have nothing to do with it, support it?
Just sayin...
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What's the worst that could happen, apart from all of us being flattened or fried or whatever bombs do? [Rudy Steiner from The Book Thief]
http://progressiveu.org/143541-how-to-survive-the-2008-elections
The will for a women's center is there but the women's groups aren't united because the adminstration will not create a women's alliance/center. Therefore, it is more difficult to drum up publicity, etc than the multicultural programs (with the center of multi-cultural programs) or LGBT (and their office). The point is that there is a group in the student body that wants to be united but doesn't have university support. Even our women's studies department is diminishing. Basically, it shouldn't be as much of a problem as it is.
As far as the men's center... they can have one if they want it. That would interesting.
and the e-mail comment was kind of dumb on my part.
don't feel dumb. That's not what I was trying to do.
Just offering an alternative perspective... and how it came off at first :dances:
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What's the worst that could happen, apart from all of us being flattened or fried or whatever bombs do? [Rudy Steiner from The Book Thief]
http://progressiveu.org/143541-how-to-survive-the-2008-elections
haha. dumb was not meant to be literal.
She kind of misquoted Mr. Mali. The quote actually goes:
"changing your mind is one of the best ways
of finding out whether or not you still have one"
It's from the poem Like Lilly Like Wilson
(full text here http://www.taylormali.com/index.cfm?webid=15)
--Mike
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hmmm ... thanks mike