Who
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Marian Dorn
Are
... Linda Freeman
I am a feminist for several reasons.
I want to fully develop my capabilities as
a free person.
I want sexual relationships without sexual games.
I want to be responsible for myself, emotionally as well as financially.
My life has been anything but conducive to achieving these goals. During the past two years I have experienced... divorce... the suicide of my ex-husband...loving a married man...a mental hospital...losing a job...college life... childbirth. Nearly all these events were related to my being female in a sexist society.
Albert Camus wrote, "In the midst of winter I discovered that there was in me an invincible summer." The more women suffer, the more strength we discover in ourselves that we have been attributing to men. Working for What She Wants I hope to help myself, and other women, to reclaim our "invincible summer."
I have always been a strong, ambitious per son, filled with a healthy sense of self-worth. Thus, when I finally found the women's movement, I simply found a name to call what I had been all along. However, it took me a little while before I got on the right track. Before I found the women's movement, I spent a couple of years in. the anti-abortion movement, as one of the leaders of the Young People for Life, and as a "saved" Jesus freak. Eventually, I did find my way into the women's movement, and I am currently Ohio state coordinator of Catholics for a Free Choice, Cochairone of Cleveland NOW's Reproduction Control committee. I am also active in Democratic party politics, as a core campaign worker for Anthony Celebrezze, State Senate candidate in District 25, and a member of the Young Democrats. I am currently a senior at John Marshall High School, having been expelled from Magnificat, an all-women's Catholic high school, because of my hosting of the show "Sexism in High School” on WERE's "Kid Power". I joined the What She Wants staff this past March, and several of my articles have appeared in the paper since that time.
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The husband ought to teach his wife with love and sensible punishment. The wife should ask her husband about all matters of decorum; how to save her soul; how to please husband and God; how to keep the house in good order. And to obey him in everything...And no matter how guilty the wife is, the husband should not hit her eyes or ears, not beat her with his fist or feet under the heart...But to beat carefully with a whip is sensible, painful, fear-inspiring, and healthy...In case of a grave offence, pull off her shirt and whip politely, holding her by the hands and saying: "Don't be angry; the people should not know about it; there should be no complaints." Sylvester, priest, 16th century
As a priest, I listen dutifully to a lot of wifely discontent. Women have their faults, and I don't suppose there is a pastor on earth who doesn't at times wish he had the power to convert them all back into ribs-nice, quiet, uncomplaining ribs.
Very Rev. Robert F. Capon
One of my first bits of advice on how to treat a woman is "take charge"! For the good of your marraige, for the good of your childrento-be, and for the good of the nation's future I hope you'll read me loud and clear...don't forget that the kind of authority we're talking about here is the authority of love. It seems to me that nearly every woman I know wants a man who knows how to love, with authority! Rev. Charles W. Shedd
This will never be a good world for woman until the last remnant of canon law is swept from the face of the earth.
Canon Charles Kingsley
BLOSSOM HILL GIRLS
BUNK WITH HUDSON BOYS ???
Blossom Hill School for Girls, a so-called juvenile detention home for girls, closed recently. That's no big thing, but the girls were sent to the Hudson Boys School.
This happened quietly without much public knowledge or arousal, Two Cleveland Councilwomen, Mary Rose Oakar and Mary Zunt, and two Board of Education members protested this obvious case of sex discrimina tion, but to no avail-the school was still closed.
It seems that most of the girls at Blossom Hill were there for what is loosely termed "promiscuity". It should be noted that boys are not sent to detention homes for sexual activity, so why the girls? Even rapists are not detained, su why girls?
This blatant case of discrimination and lack of concern for the welfare of young girls merits further investigation. What She Wants will report results of investigations in an effort to obtain fair treatment for these girls.
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