Subject: Re: gender: Here's a story from the web,....
From: Nathan McGowan (nathan@newm2.monsterbit.com)
Date: Wed Nov 03 1999 - 13:05:14 CST
Maybe some of you have heard the story about the "Fight Club reenactment"
that took place last week. Police said a bunch of dudes got together
pummeling each other and one of the kids ended up in the hospital. What
was sort of overlooked is that these kids had been doing this sort of thing
well before movie, and that in the big scheme of things, more boys will
certainly be injured reenacting "George of the Jungle" (running into
trees) than they ever will from "Fight Club".
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, jenn!! wrote:
> ATLANTA -- Wal-Mart says it'll stop selling an action figure based on a World Wrestling Federation
> competitor, following complaints by two Georgia woman that the package includes a woman's head
> with the words "help me" written on it.
>
> The toy is called "Summer Slam '99: Road Rage Al Snow." It's based on WWF wrestler Al Snow,
> who sometimes carries a female mannequin's head into the ring.
>
> Kennesaw State University professor Sabrena Parton - one of the two women who complained -
> says she "just couldn't believe that something like this was being sold to children." In her words -
> "We are normalizing violent treatment of women. We're teaching little boys this is acceptable
> behavior. We need to stop the way that women have been treated in this society for generations."
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