From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Fri Nov 05 1999 - 20:16:08 MST
Thought this might be of interest, even though the feminism debate has died
down.
Cheers!
Daniel Ust
http://mars.superlink.net/neptune/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Wendy McElroy
mac@ifeminists.com
(519) 986-4266.
FAX (519) 986-4413
ifeminists.com: 21st Century Feminism
CHICAGO - With the opening of ifeminists.com today
(http://www.ifeminists.com/) , the women's
movement takes a giant step forward into 21st Century Feminism.
In recent years, American feminism has come to be associated with anger
toward men who, as a class, are viewed as the political enemy. Many
feminists have attacked the sexual choices of adult women who enjoy
consuming and posing for pornography. Others have called for the government
to impose affirmative action policies and speech codes. Some feminists even
want to ban new reproductive technologies that offer hope to infertile
women.
"ifeminists.com smashes the feminist stereotypes," says Wendy McElroy, the
site's editor and an internationally recognized leader in the individualist
feminist (ifeminist) movement. "A new generation of women are facing the
millennium. They deserve a new feminist paradigm that celebrates the
diversity of their choices and the wonders that technology can offer to
them. ifeminists.com is an on-ramp to this new way of thinking about
feminist issues."
"Freedom and choice do not threaten women. Government and orthodoxy do,"
says McElroy. "Pornography and prostitution? Let women do what they want to
with their own bodies. Verbal sexual harassment? If women want an equal
right to explore their own sexuality, they risk encountering the offensive
sexual attitudes of others."
ifeminists.com invites women and men to come online to socialize, to learn,
and to explore a wealth of information. The site offers an Introduction
section that includes a "Frequently Asked Questions" page and an "Are you
an
ifeminist?" quiz. For the activist, the Interaction section offers a
directory of the site's members, an interactive message board, and a live
chat room. For scholars and students, the Information section features a
comprehensive and constantly expanding database of hundreds of
individualist
feminist resources.
Visitors are invited to become members of ifeminists.com for free. Of the
first 1,000 people to register during November, 200 will be randomly
selected to receive a complimentary audiotape recorded by Wendy McElroy.
Her
controversial speech critiques policies such as affirmative action and laws
against sexual harassment.
ifeminists.com is a project of The Henry Hazlitt Foundation, a
Chicago-based
non-profit organization that produces Free-Market.Net: The Freedom Network.
McElroy is the author of books including "XXX: A Woman's Right to
Pornography" (St. Martin's, 1995), and, most recently, "Queen Silver: The
Godless Girl" (Prometheus, Dec. 1999). She has been published in magazines
as diverse as National Review, Penthouse, and Marie Claire.
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