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Feminists need to move on
The Indianapolis Star ^
| April 16, 2002
| Andrea Neal
Posted on 04/17/2003 11:53:49 AM PDT by RAT Patrol
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:26:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Now that Martha Burk and her cronies have wasted a weekend -- make that a year -- protesting the trivial in Augusta, maybe they could come north to Indianapolis and decry the shortage of women revelers in the Indy 500 infield.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: augustanational; feminism; golfprotest
To: RAT Patrol
I kind of wish I was closer to Augusta - it would have been fun to walk around with a sign decrying how I'm not allowed to be a member because I'm a poor white man...
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posted on
04/17/2003 11:59:05 AM PDT
by
trebb
To: RAT Patrol
"Maybe what the feminist movement needs to do is take on some other issues. Homelessness would be one." Well, so would foreign policy inasmuch as half of the population of the Moslem world not only can't vote, but can't show their faces on the street. But that might risk putting them on the same side of the issue as those horrible Republicans...naw, can't risk that. Let the Moslem women wait...
To: RAT Patrol
Good advice. Augusta is a non-issue. And Burk is clearly oblivious of the right to associate.
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posted on
04/17/2003 12:02:05 PM PDT
by
lurky
To: trebb
It's not that you're not "allowed" .. it's that you're not yet invited to join.
Only then will dues and fees become your issue.
8-)
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posted on
04/17/2003 12:02:09 PM PDT
by
Blueflag
To: trebb
LOL. I'm not allowed to be a member because I'm not a golfer. How discriminatory. It looks like a beautiful place for a picnic after all.
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posted on
04/17/2003 12:02:32 PM PDT
by
RAT Patrol
(Congress can give one American a dollar only by first taking it away from another American. -W.W.)
To: RAT Patrol
NOW lost their credibility when during Clintoon's sex scandals along with a couple of other congressional RATS scandals the NOW kept supporting these jokers. Further, the majority of the membership were lessies. As a woman, I say NO THANKS to their membership. They've got NOTHING I want to be associated with.
To: lurky
Her strategy was stupid. Her demonstrations were silly. Butshe isn't going away. She's targeting the corporations who's CEO's are members..and they're scared. I have several friends who work at AMEX, some fairly high-up, and Ken Chennault is going nuts with this. He's a minority, and AMEX markets heavily to women...so he can't stand that kind of publicity, that image. Yet, if he resigns, he looks "wussy"..like he was forced to do so. The thought is ( now that the tournament's over) that he's going to come out with a forceful statement AGAINST the policy, yet refuse to resign, saying that he wants to work from within to change the club. Since members aren't supposed to "diss" the Chairman...this will force Hootie to kick him out, which would make Chenault happy..he'd be a martyr, a hero...but bad PR for Hooties and Augusta...kicking out a black member. So, Hootie "won" the battle, but he lost the war....unless, UNLESS, there's a secret agreement to name a female member real soon....saving everyone's face...
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posted on
04/17/2003 12:32:33 PM PDT
by
ken5050
To: ken5050
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/847037/posts
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posted on
04/17/2003 12:41:01 PM PDT
by
votelife
(FREE MIGUEL ESTRADA!)
To: ken5050
What a friggin' mess. For nothing. Thanks for the inside scoop.
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posted on
04/17/2003 12:41:14 PM PDT
by
lurky
To: lurky
FWIW, I think the reason that Chenault and others kept their powder dry is that female member is already chosen. If they announced it before, it would have looked like Hootie was caving in to Martha, which would have pissed him off, and the female member would have detracted freom the tournament, which no one connected with AN wanted....it's the tournament which is important.....as to who it is, I haven't the foggiest, though I've been trying to figure out if Condi Rice or Maggie Thatchter play golf...
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posted on
04/17/2003 1:10:11 PM PDT
by
ken5050
To: ken5050
Sandra Day O'Connor is an avid golfer, butt Mz. Burke has set her membership back by a few years.
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posted on
04/17/2003 1:43:46 PM PDT
by
WaveThatFlag
(Run Al, Run!!!)
To: RAT Patrol
They don't need to move on ------ they need to move away.
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posted on
04/17/2003 1:47:04 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
("You are not fit to be commander in chief" -- the father of Sgt. Shughart who died in Somalia)
To: doug from upland
Well, you are not going to get an argument from me on that.
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posted on
04/17/2003 1:49:44 PM PDT
by
RAT Patrol
(Congress can give one American a dollar only by first taking it away from another American. -W.W.)
To: RAT Patrol
Martha Burke is the reason Premarin needs to come in salt lick form.
To: RAT Patrol
Sixty percent of college students are now women, which suggests it won't be long before some affirmative action extremists propose quotas to guarantee admissions equality for men. Yeah, no doubt those advocating affirmative action would suddenly be considered 'extreme' were this to happen.
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posted on
04/17/2003 1:58:39 PM PDT
by
skeeter
(Fac ut vivas)
To: lilylangtree
"NOW lost their credibility when during Clintoon's sex scandals..."
I totally agree. It clarified that their stated goals were not their real goals. Can you imagine them ignoring a major CEO who had played paddy-cakes with an intern... And then lied about it to the judicial system? I think not.
But my question is - why does NOW or any other woman's group need to have a focus if the issues directly related to women have been met? Homelessness is not a woman's issue; its a social issue. And there are many ways to get involved. Why does this need to be couched under the auspice of a woman's organization?
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posted on
04/17/2003 4:02:37 PM PDT
by
DougF
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