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Scrapbook Frosty the Phallus Conservative bloggers across the country have been having a field day snickering at the Harvard women who knocked down a snow-and-ice sculpture during the last big...
...It is presented each year to the columnist, editorialist, or reporter whose work best reflects the spirit of Breindel's too-short career: love of country, concern for the preservation and integrity of democratic institutions, and resistance to the evils of totalitarianism...
...Nominations Requested Applications are invited for the fifth annual Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism...
...Keel wrote this letter to the Harvard Crimson: As a student of Harvard University, neither I, nor any other woman, should have to see this obscene and grossly inappropriate thing on my way to class...
...Deadline for submissions is April 25...
...Exactly when might that occur to McEwan's satisfaction...
...Taranto found it particularly droll that Ms...
...By the right context, I refer to an attempt to begin the process of a focused, creative, and inclusive settlement to the Palestinian problem...
...The article was called, "Hawks Have My Head, Doves Have My Heart, Guess Which Wins...
...No, we're referring to Kucinich's televised recitation of the Gettysburg Address in a Donald Duck voice...
...it means that we, as women, must be subject to erect penises whether we like it or not...
...Can he really be saying—after how many American-brokered agreements and how many suicide bombings, after how many years of appeasing Arafat, after such a mind-boggling pile-up of good intentions to make peace and the failure to achieve any—that confronting Saddam must await progress between Israel and the Palestinians...
...So all you guys out there doing oppo for the other Democratic candidates, consider this The Scrapbook's gift to you...
...For an application and further information about this year's contest, which once again features a $10,000 award, please contact Germaine Febles, 212843-8031 or gfebles@Rubenstein.com...
...And maybe we find silly some of the comments about phallic symbols and the Washington Monument that have been dredged up by Ms...
...We suspect, in fact, that the sculpture in question is a work of homoerotic art that, as such, does not involve women at all...
...The sculpture had been thrown up in a fit of high spirits by members of the men's crew on February 11...
...Tis a pity it should be trotted out by someone who does...
...On the substance of this issue, there is not the tiniest shred of a syllable in the above-quoted "feminist" arguments with which we disagree...
...McEwan's "Yes, But" Ian McEwan, whose 2002 novel Atonement just won the National Book critics circle Award, aired his ambivalence on the war question in a recent New York Observer...
...That's boilerplate left-wing libel these days...
...Rosenfeld than elegantly decadent with Messrs...
...But THE SCRAPBOOK would rather be clumsily decent with Ms...
...Maybe we would be less inclined than Ms...
...If this is "victim feminism," then we are victim feminists, too...
...Maybe we would be less inclined than Ms...
...Saddam] has obsessively produced chemical and biological weapons on an industrial scale, and has a history of bloody territorial ambition . . . [and a] record of genocide...
...Keel and Ms...
...Arcing nine feet out of Harvard Yard, it depicted an erect penis above a base of two giant, egg-shaped testicles...
...Sullivan and Taranto...
...All the same, George Bush announced last week his intention to start work again on the Palestinian issue, even as we proceed against Saddam...
...While this may elicit no more than a yawn from most folks, we'll assume it means McEwan is now hard at work on another article, this one entitled, "Why I Am Now Firmly Behind Taking Out Saddam...
...We realize that old-time civic religion has faded, but there are still plenty of Americans for whom this would count as a desecration...
...Rosenfeld's detractors...
...The recipient will be announced in June...
...The occasion was a November 3, 1999, "Funniest celebrity in Washington" contest, and it was broadcast by c-SpAN and written up the following Monday in the Washington Post...
...The unwanted image of an erect penis is an implied threat...
...Rosenfeld's side...
...There was nothing "challenging" or "subversive" about the penis...
...Andrew Sullivan derided as "victim feminists" those like Harvard women's studies lecturer Diane Rosenfeld, who complained: "The ice sculpture was erected in a public space, one that should be free from menacing reminders of women's sexual vulnerability...
...The nothing-else-should-happen-until-the-Palestinians-are-satisfied argument has been trotted out many times by people who don't believe in toppling Saddam and don't want to dwell on the suffering of the Iraqi people or the binding nature of international agreements...
...What's the catch...
...The only thing it did was create an uncomfortable environment for the women of Harvard University...
...For the Economist magazine, the sculpture showed that fundamentalist bluenosery has now found a perch even in America's elite universities...
...We're not referring to his Feb...
...Scrapbook Frosty the Phallus Conservative bloggers across the country have been having a field day snickering at the Harvard women who knocked down a snow-and-ice sculpture during the last big snowstorm...
...McEwan is particularly moved by the reasons for war as enumerated by Iraqi exiles in their tales of repression and torture under the murderous rule of Saddam Hussein (see Stephen F. Hayes's cover story elsewhere in these pages for examples of this...
...Rosenfeld to view the snow-figure as insulting just to women...
...Keel's and Ms...
...Keel to stress our personal history as grounds for destroying the sculpture...
...In these pages, we have certainly deplored the puritanical aspect of modern feminism just as frequently as we have its radical aspect...
...No one should have to be subjected to an erect penis without his or her express permission or consent...
...And so, the great writer from Britain—where the American stance on war is of course widely reviled—is willing to concede that "in the right context, with the right ambitions, it could be a moral act to remove Saddam and his hideous entourage by force and restore Iraq to its people...
...23 appearance on Meet the Press, in which he asserted that "oil represents the strongest incentive" for war with Iraq, because "individuals involved in the administration have been involved in the oil industry," and "the oil industry certainly would benefit from having the administration control Iraq...
...Donald Duck Kucinich We suspect it's a sign of how unse-riously the Kucinich for president campaign is being taken that no one has yet dredged up what has to be the cleveland Democrat's most embarrassing moment in the public spotlight...
...Many women and men, including myself, are the victims of sexual assault, child sexual abuse and rape...
...And James Taranto, writing in the Opinion Journal, dismissed as a "flake" Harvard co-ed Amy Keel, who owned up to having destroyed the sculpture herself...
...Shortly after Saddam and Satan go ice skating together is our guess...
...So let us be clear where we stand here: The Scrap-book is 105 percent on Ms...
...And McEwan is aware of Saddam's record of pursuing weapons of mass destruction along with his willingness to use them...
...The award is named for longtime New York Post editor and columnist (and Weekly Standard contributor) Eric Breindel, who died in 1998 at the age of 42...
Vol. 8 • March 2003 • No. 25
