Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Cleveland Plain Dealer Neil Chethik, a caring father, fears for his son's future—it's enough to make a grown man cry: I now have the opportunity to help shape a man. The day after Thanksgiving,...
...It's about connecting a woman's self-identity to the size of her breasts...
...it seems to me to be about how this world has always been...
...While the term "warriors" is generic, it has been identified inseparably with Native Americans since its adoption as a nickname at Marquette...
...For over a year, a committee of students, alumni and administrators discussed the mascot, logo and nickname of the University's athletic teams...
...Olympic skating trials...
...The other boy, unimpressed, simply said, "Everybody has a penis...
...November 17, 1993] SF Weekly Food for thought, on the pages of San Francisco's challenge to the New York Review of Books: I guess everyone's begun to realize a simple truth: It's dangerous on top of the food chain...
...Actually, there was no such pressure...
...Heck, he may even be a virgin...
...October 11, 1993] El Dorado Sun From old New Mexico, news of a transilient educational experience for all 1960s retreads not currently serving in the Clinton administration: WHITE PRIVILEGE an interactive workshop for white people to examine their daily experience of white skin privilege and how to use that privilege to challenge racism (Saturday, December 4, 1993) Facilitated by Joan Olsson Director, Cultural Bridges, NY "We did not choose our skin color—yet as white people, our daily lives are influenced by white skin privilege...
...What would Schindler have made of these stories...
...December 1993] San Francisco Chronicle Miss Leah Garchik, staff writer for the venerable Chronicle, reports on the artistic challenges fearlessly faced by another of the gaudy frauds populating America's parasitic Arts World: If you think it's funny that some guy's planning to hook together a mile's worth of brassieres—linking for the first time such bosom rivals as Lily of France, Vanity Fair, Warner's, Bali, Olga, Maidenform and Vassarette—and string this sisterly chain across the cleavage of the Grand Canyon, that's exactly the reaction he's hoping for...
...Sliding scale: $25-$55...
...You know—a little bit from here, a little bit from there...
...I believe it was David Spade's rude character on Saturday Night Live who first made the Jackson-asfoodstuff concept explicit...
...We cheered and hugged him when it came...
...How do we, as white people, collude with the cycle of racism that oppresses people of color...
...Her mélange of butch and femme may be more muted than that of your basic gender radical—and most of the femme effects come off as calculated political moves—but it draws on a similar spirit of mix-and-match role-playing...
...I mean, I've been home twice now and a lot of the people that used to work for me in state government, a lot of the—just the state troopers coming off the highways, you know, would come up to me and slap me on the back and say they supported me, they knew that what was so and what wasn't, that they were with us...
...How do you find the grit...
...As far as the rest, all the other things have a silver lining...
...Most of all, he's looking for bra agents to solicit donations and maintain contributor lists...
...After a review of the committee's work and further discussion, the University administration decided the current nickname and logo were not in harmony with our longstanding respect for Native American tradition...
...As the economy freezes over and the level of affluence goes down and the bitter social shoreline is exposed, certain highly specialized creatures are threatened with extinction...
...His body, like that of any self-respecting sacrificial victim, has been ritually altered, and his personality has transcended the boundaries between male and female...
...Bem, who believes that it is important for parents to stress that there are really no differences between girls and boys except for the obvious anatomical variations, tells a very entertaining story about her then fouryear-old son Jeremy who decided to wear barrettes to nursery school one day...
...He's a boy, after all, and the world will soon teach him that burying his emotions is part of the price of becoming a man...
...Fall 1993] 104 The American Spectator February 1994 NEA Today In one of the foremost intellectual gazettes read by American teachers, the illustrious William Least-Heat Moon, novelist, speaks to the ignoramus in us all: I believe in genetic memory, that things our ancestors have done are passed on to us...
...December 29, 1993] Marquette University A great institution of higher learning deinstitutionalizes its mascot: As you may know, Marquette has decided to select a new nickname for our sports teams—one that makes no reference to ethnicity and gender...
...Marquette's Jesuit, Catholic heritage emphasizes care and respect for all people...
...I made an attempt to vaccinate her against cultural constructions...
...Another little boy repeatedly harassed him, saying that only girls wear barrettes...
...When her daughter Emily received her first book of fairy tales, says Bern (MM'65), "I realized that this was the most sexist piece of literature that my daughter had ever seen...
...To reserve space, send $15 deposit by Nov...
...What I've found as a result of this borderline lie is that the more fluid my identity has become, and the less demanding my own need to belong to the camps of the male, female, gay or straight, the more playful and less dictatorial has become my fashion...
...I mean, it's been—it's been difficult for you, ranging from those Arkansas troopers and their charges, the Whitewater affair, which has just been eating away at the White House staff and, I suspect, at you and Mrs...
...Thank goodness the gender binary has begun to collapse and the old body binary is changing . . . it was so boring and predictable, wasn't it...
...years ago, I found out that my great-greatgrandfather was a stonemason on the Erie Canal...
...It's about breast implants and victimizing the health of women...
...The day after Thanksgiving, following a smooth pregnancy and a harrowing labor, my wife, Kelly, gave birth to an 8 1/2-pound baby boy...
...The artist, who can be reached at (510) 237-3939, is looking for volunteers of all kinds to help ready the work and install it...
...More than the act of a madman or an isolated incident—which is what the Monica Seles attack previously was called—Kerrigan and Seles's cases have infinitely more to do with what happened to former Navy distance runner Kerryn O'Neill last month when she and ex-Navy quarterback Alton Grizzard were slain by George Smith, a classmate who then fatally shot himself because he was angry O'Neill had ended their engagement some weeks previous...
...Santa Fe Sponsor: Kay Leigh Hagan Enrollment limited...
...It is also important to note that this was not done in response to any outside pressure...
...We have about 125 agents nationwide," he said yesterday, "and we need 10 times that amount...
...October 24, 1993] Washington Post A historic first—columnist Richard Cohen compares Our President to a celebrity Nazi: Steven Spielberg has given us the movie "Schindler's List...
...many thoughtful points from Kate Bornstein, who, it's believed, is Bill Clinton's tailor: My identity as a transsexual lesbian whose female lover has become a man is manifest in my fashion statement: both my identity and fashion are based on a collage...
...Spy once featured a doctored image of Hillary-as-dominatrix on its cover, but you can be sure that if S/M were her thing, our First Lady would be an enthusiastic "switch," delighting equally in the top and bottom roles...
...Only girls wear barrettes...
...How can we break that cycle...
...You're done...
...She chooses, very deliberately, to create an image that blends traditional markers of masculinity (toughness, immersion in public policy) with the most conventional signs of femininity (nurturance, concern with home and hearth...
...Because of the tense delivery, there was no sweeter sound than Evan's first healthy cry...
...The work, which will span a mile-wide section of the canyon, will be "participatory art, humorous social commentary and a statement against sexism," he says...
...The most important cultural event of 1993 provides a perfect illustration of this...
...It's about the puritanical obsession with the breast...
...23 to Kay L. Hagan, POB 22262, SF, NM 87502-2262...
...In her straitlaced and mainstream way, she embraces gender-bending with all the enthusiasm of a combat-boots-and-lipstick grrrl...
...I'm trying to keep it on the humorous side...
...Jackson, it now becomes obvious, was being fattened for sacrifice over a period of many years, and now it is time for the feast...
...Jeremy tried to explain what his parents had taught him about gender stereotypes...
...Then about five...
...January 8, 1994] Nightline En route to the Summit, Ted Koppel provides the cheese and Our President produces another whopper: KOPPEL: Over the past month, you've had a bad time...
...Bras Across Grand Canyon will bring a smile to your face," says a statement of purpose by Nicolino, the 53-year-old Richmond performance artist who's hoping to accomplish the feat in the summer or fall of 1995...
...CLINTON: Well, my mother helps me with that, you know...
...I explained that these stories were written a long time ago when people had very odd ideas about boys and girls...
...Clinton, and now your mother's death...
...Put a fork in yourself, Michael," he said...
...Into the volcano he goes...
...What exactly is white privilege...
...The American Spectator has given us a list of its own—two former Arkansas troopers who in turn claim to have a list of Bill Clinton's girlfriends...
...But that could be the last time anyone praises him for his tears...
...November 3, 1993] The American Spectator February 1994 105...
...I said to her, 'I'll bet that in every story there will be someone who is strong and brave, and someone who is either beautiful or ugly...
...All three cases aren't about what this world is coming to...
...The event, of course, is the symbolic consummation, the Passion, in a biblical sense, of Michael Jackson...
...I never understood why I was almost unable to turn myself away from watching a stonemason at work...
...So we inherit riot just the color of our hair and the shape of our eyes, but also certain inclinations...
...It was also determined that neither the Warriors name nor logo adequately represents our expanded men's and women's athletic program...
...Please pay as much as you can to enable others to attend, and to support Joan's important work...
...After getting nowhere with his classmate, Jeremy pulled down his pants to prove his point...
...For example, I'm fascinated by stone walls...
...I'd never known that...
...December 19, 1993] Washington Post Feminist echolalia in an unlikely locale, the jock pages of the Post, as penned by Johnette Howard: Coarse as it sounds, what happened to Nancy Kerrigan Thursday afternoon is not that out of the ordinary—not if it is taken in its correct context as the sort of violence that is perpetrated by men against women every day, in myriad ways, in places a lot less well-lit or noticed than this week's U.S...
...Fee: $45 requested/Sliding Scale Offered* North Room, Cloud Cliff Bakery, 1805 2nd St...
...The change will be effective after the 1993-94 academic year, when we will adopt a nickname, logo and mascot which can be effectively utilized by the University and its Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreational Sports...
...How do we learn to spend our white privilege with integrity...
...January 10, 1994] New York Times Magazine In a learned symposium on "Does Fashion Matter...
...At least for women...
...Sort of a cut-and-paste thing...
...As former members of the former governor's security detail, they say they not only ferried Clinton to and from his alleged assignations, they occasionally set up these meetings themselves...
...Still more blah from the same incontinent source: It seems that Hillary consciously makes herself a moving target, while previous presidential wives often projected a simpler identity...
...December 23, 1993] Carnegie Mellon Magazine The making of a child abuser: Even before her children were five years old, Sandra Lipsitz Bem introduced them to cultural stereotypes about gender...
Vol. 27 • February 1994 • No. 2
