BOOS, BRAVOS AND TIDBITS

WSW is happy to welcome a new monthly column called BOOS, BRAVOS AND TIDBITS, written by the Bionic Bitches, calling attention to happenings that concern women, including occasional criticism of the feminist community's own foibles,

The Bionic Bitches wish to solicit reader participation and contributions. Any Boo, Bravo or Tidbit you wish to contribute should be sent to:

Bionic Bitches

c/o WSW

P. O. Box 18472

Cleveland Hts., Ohio 44118

BRAVO to Wegi Louise, who mustered Cleveland womenpower and womenspirit together to successfully overcome her ex-husband's attempt to deny her visitation with her two sons, on the grounds that her "feminist lifestyle" was harmful to them.

BRAVO to the Three of Cups volunteers, restaurant and staff for providing super holiday celebrations and feasts!

BOO to Mayor Kucinich and the Street Department who decided to fill in a giant chuck hole (three feet wide, five inches deep) on Cleveland's east side only after a truck lost a wheel in it, lost control and crashed into an oncoming car, killing its female passenger.

BRAVO to National Organization for Women

members Lana Moresky and Eva Janacek, who got national coverage when they appeared in a picture with Karen DeCrow in Time Magazine's article on the Houston IWY convention. Unfortunately, they were "just another pretty face," as Time neglected to identify them.

BOO to WomenSpace for refusing to support Empress, a women's printing company, because it was nonunion, when it is a worker controlled company.

BOO to the January 1st issue of the Plain Dealer's Sunday Magazine, for treating major social issues, such as gay rights, as though they were fads and could be discarded like old clothes when the new fashions came in.

BRAVO to anyone who made a New Year's Resolution to stop smoking and really did. Heaven knows we women have enough going against us without voluntarily suiciding ourselves cigarette at a time!

BRAVO to Cleo Ferguson and Judy Rainbreek for perseverance over old nicotine stains. In two days of hard work they lightened up the interior of the Three of Cups by painting the walls and ceiling. (You will know them by the little white spots on their eyelids.)

TIDBIT: This month's Staunchness of Feminist Principles Award goes to Meredith Holmses, who when forced to attend church and wear skirt, still refused to shave her legs! (Hair, hair) TIDBIT (with sadness): Heloise, the woman who knew more ways to use nylon net than the women's movement has factions, died recently. Her obituary revealed that she was a far more fascinating character than the male media let us know. There will be many of us who will mourn the loss of our most widely known female "inventor".

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By the Bionic Bitches

BRAVO to What She Wants, for putting out one of the best issues ever (December) with one of the smallest staffs ever,

BRAVO to the network broadcasting the Orange Bowl parade this year for hiring Rita Moreno instead of Anita Bryant to narrate.

TIDBIT: We have sent Mayor Kucinich and his new Police Chief our suggestion for reducing street crime: A 6 o'clock curfew, after which all men have to be off the street unless they have a letter of permission from their mother.

BRAVO to the ERA coalition, who have persuaded women's and other liberal social action groups to boycott convention facilities in states that have not yet passed the ERA, Estimates of lost convention business in Florida and Chicago alone are in the millions!

TIDBIT: Speaking of feminist burn-out, it is rumored that the CWC vibrator, a family heirloom of one of the staff who had generously loaned it to other staff and friends, has finally buzzed itself to death when one uscr tried to hold off the "peak moment" too long and it overheated!

TIDBIT: Don't be misled by the brief blurb in last month's WSW stating that the Cleveland Women's Handbook was ready. It's not. There should be some kind of award to the staff and editorial board of the Handbook for keeping the entire women's and social service community in suspense, awaiting publication of the epic volume.

BOO to CMHA guards who "declined" to search for an intruder in a high rise for the elderly at 3495 East 98th Street. The intruder later murdered Mrs. Magnolia Ownsby, a resident there.

BRAVO to other CMHA residents and friends for showing up at the next CMHA Board meeting to demand resignations from Director Fitzgerald and the entire Board for their continued failure to deal with security issues at CMHA property.

BOO to the member of Parliament in England who was outraged that lesbian women were becoming mothers through artificial insemination. (And we thought that MCP's supported motherhood.)

BRAVO to EmPress, for surviving its first six months of operation and cleaning out the basement at the white house.

BOO to the manufacturer of "Love's Baby Soft” whose commercial, "You can love 'em hard, you can love 'em soft, but soft gets 'em every time” promotes a return to the fifties idiocy that simpering and giggling will get you a man. (It will, too!)

BRAVO (a little late) to Cleveland Women Working for instituting such a successful "Most Trivial Office Procedure Contest" that they gained national attention in last month's Ms. Magazine. (Carrots, anyone?)

TIDBIT: A New Year's Resolution for the entire women's community in Cleveland: Resolved, that everyone will stay put this year! Adherence to this resolution will save us thousands of dollars in chiropractor bills, security deposits, telephone installations, cardboard cartons, new used appliances, U-Haul rentals, and friendships!

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

yes we've maDE OUR QUOTA

NONTIE KOYXM WAON AND I BAKS

DRINK TO CELOSPATE

VERFAL

APARTMENT FOR RENT

'I'm sorry, but I don't rent to Bible-toting fanaties....... I don't want my kids influenced by them."

"Sorry, buster

fixed income, you know"

What She Wants/January, 1978/page 3