Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...weekly pages, we have done a number of cover stories on relevant topics, including the child-care crisis % (1987), abortion (1989 and 1990) and the future of feminism (1989). This time, however, we decided on a first: we would not only devote an entire magazine to the subject but make it an extra issue, one that would go to all our subscribers and be available on the newsstands for several weeks. We were pleased when Sears found our plans so intriguing that it offered to become the sole advertiser for this issue...
...eager to contribute to the issue, and it is their efforts that chiefly fill these pages. But we decided early on that it would be inappropriate to confine our contributors to women, and thus we have also involved a number of male colleagues. It has been our goal to make the issue equally interesting to men and to women...
...three-year-old daughter is puzzled. Why, she wants to know, did Georgie Porgie kiss the girls and make them cry? "Because he's mean," I say, with a sinking feeling, for how can this be the right answer? As the rollicking little rhyme makes all too clear, young George is a clever rogue, all pudding and pie; the tearful girls are merely boring. Mother Goose in one hand and a leaky juice box in the other, I begin the sad, infuriating task shared by all modern mothers of daughters: to raise my child to be confident, adventurous and happy...
...among women nationwide. Society has been "sensitized": we have rape hot lines and rape shield laws, battered-women's shelters and battered-women's-syndrome legal defenses. Just how much real change is occurring, however, is open to question. Two years after the Washington police department directed officers to make arrests in domestic-violence cases, local women's groups found that the policy was rarely enforced. But at least the subject is on the table -- for women...
...respect women as equals and keep their fists to themselves. Some cherished male folkways may have to go -- the cult of hyperviolent heroes like Rambo, for example. Too bad. I want men to confront their own aggression, the pleasure they take in its depiction and the excuses they make for its enactment -- that no really means yes, that wives need to know who's boss, that "bad" girls are fair game. I want them to tell their tiny sons what I tell my daughter: Georgie Porgie isn't cute. He's mean...