ITEM If a fetus has a “right to life.” but eighteen years later has an "obligation to death," which sex is it? Registering all our 18-year-old sons for the draft in the event the country needs more soldiers is as sexist as registering all our 18-year-old daughters for child-bearing in the event the country needs […]

During the U. S. invasion of Panama, front-page headlines heralded the first woman leading soldiers into combat.9 Although The New York Times made it clear the woman thought she was approaching an ««guarded dog kennel,10 Congresswoman Schroeder used this incident to develop three myths — myths that were reinforced during the war in the Persian […]

The fear of the services is that if women and men are held to equal standards in combat training that either the standards will have to be lowered or. conversely, the standards kept the same and about 80 percent of women won’t be able to hack it. Fortunately, though, there is a way of making […]

1 predict that women will increasingly be allowed to volunteer for any combat situation. But, by giving women more options in combat while still requiring only men to go to combat should a war erupt, we will be increasingly reinforcing the era of the pro-choice woman and the no-choice man. It will mean that during […]

… 1 think women are too valuable to be in combat. Caspar Weinberger, US. Secretary of Defense (under Reagan/* It is not appropriate for women to engage in combat… to be captured or to be shot, as opposed to pushing a button someplace in a missile silo. Sandra Day O’Connor, Supreme Court Justices Men get […]

The psychological draft The psychological draft of boys begins before, and continues after, the legal draft of boys. It begins with unconsciously teaching infant boys to endure pain when we cut an infant boy s penis without anesthesia but not an infant girl’s clitoris, with taking longer to pick up our boy children than our […]

Every society rests on the death of men. Oliver Wendell Holmes ITEM Almost one out of three American men is a veteran.’ ITEM In one World War I battle alone (the Battle of the Somme), more than one million men were killed or maimed.2 Understanding men requires understanding men’s relationship to the three Ws. women, […]

While we have seen that twenty-four out of the twenty-five worst jobs are male jobs3* and that many men also have low-pay jobs (busboy, doorman, dishwasher, gas station attendant, etc.), many of the lowest-paid jobs are predominantly occupied by women. Why the distinction between the worst and low-paid jobs? Because many of the low-paid jobs […]

When mining, construction, and other death professions are discussed in feminist publications, they are portrayed as examples of the male power system, as "male-only dubs." However, when Ms. magazine profiled female miners, the emphasis was on how the woman was forced to take a job in the mines because it paid the best, and how […]

Complete these sentences with your first, gut-level thought: ► Shortly after they heard the alarm, a crew of_____________ rescued some women from a blazing apartment. ► Two——— attacked a woman jogger in Central Park. Most people think of the woman as being saved by "firemen" or "fire fighters." It is now considered sexist for TV […]