Conference quark::human_relations-v1

    Personally, I love the choice of "Roast Chicken" or "Feminist Stew"...
    
    "Oh, Mom, not feminist stew AGAIN!"
    
    Ray

    What do I think?  <formfeed for the ebullition-sensitive>
    
    
    
    BA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
    
    -Jody
    

    Ray, I'm still giggling!!
    
    I thought the whole thing was pretty funny myself, until I kept
    reading...I didn't, by a long shot, include the whole of the
    advertising piece they sent...it's pretty scary, to me, to be reminded
    that there are people who seem to perceive equal opportunity to mean
    the disintegration of the American family.  I'm at a loss as to how to
    cope with my feeling of despair about this.  Yes, I value free speech;
    at the same time, the whole thrust of this mag seems aimed at making
    "The Handmaiden's Tale" come true.
    
    Lynn
    

    Lynn-
    
    Could you tell us who the publisher is?
    
    Nancy
    

    Wait a minute.  I make feminist roast chicken!
    
    --bonnie

    Nancy,
    Didn't bring the "postage already paid reply card" with me; will look
    it up when I get home tonight.
    Lynn

    From the slant of it, I'd hazard a guess that it was in some way
    related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the
    Mormons). Just a guess though.
    
    Deb
    

I don't think the Mormons are anywhere as fanatically paranoid as this
publication's promoters seem to be.

			Steve

     It troubles me a great deal each time I hear about publications like
    the one mentioned here. These magazines (and other forms of
    publication) are read by millions of people every day, and many believe
    what they read unquestioningly. This leads to further ignorance, and
    the problem perpetuates. I wish people in general were more open-minded
    and tolerant, but as children we have no control over what we are
    raised to believe.
    							- Jim -

    My natural tendency for gallows humor regarding things like this grew
    by leaps and bounds during my high school days, in a rural Missouri
    town.  (Probably did a lot to help my appreciation of horror movies as
    well - ever notice how many of them center around rednecks?)
    
    The school library was given a subscription to a lunatic-fringe
    right-wing "newspaper" by some John Bircher or another.  It included
    articles about the Protocols of Zion, Jimmy Carter's plot to have all
    white women impregnated by black men, the hidden connection between
    Rockefeller and the commies, and (taking the prize) the Coca-Cola
    conspiracy (too complicated to get into here, but remind me to tell you
    about it if we ever meet over drinks).  The paper boasted of high sales
    and I have indeed found it in odd corners of the country since then.
    
    In school, the only people who ever read it were me and the librarian,
    and we read it for laughs.  The Baptist comic books got a lot more
    attention from the students, although I can't recall them stopping
    anyone from drinking, dancing, cussing, drugging, or screwing around.
    
    Having raised your consciousness of just how many lunatics are out and
    about (which any observant person probably already knows), there's not
    much left to do about rags like that but appreciate them as humor.
    
    Ray

    A lot of people read the National Enquirer and think it's the
    truth. Maybe it's the same crowd that will read this. After all, if
    you let women decide for themselves you get those ugly situations
    where a two headed woman gets pregnant and one side wants an
    abortion. And who needs that in a society like ours? liesl

    
		
>    	DAY CARE: THALIDOMIDE OF THE 80'S--Like the notorious drug of
>    	the '60's, Day Care has been termed "completely safe."  But
>    	now it can be proven that this new threat to children not only
>    	imperils the body, it also distorts and withers the spirit.

	    Conclusion: one parent should stay home with the kids while
	    the other works.


>    	Father-led families prove far more resistant to drugs than 
>    	mother-led families.

>    	Why More Women Working Means Lower Pay for Men

>    	The Link Between Mother-Dominated Families and Drug Use

	    Amended conclusion: Dad should stay home with the kids while
	    Mom works.  He won't be able to make much money anyway, and
	    it's the only way to keep the kids off drugs.
	

>    	VANISHING MOMS--Grade school texts are filled with truck-driving,
>    	fire-fighting, adventure-seeking women, with traditional mothers
>    	censored out of the pages.  How will this affect the future of
>    	the American family?  Most educators don't want you to know.

>    	Perilous Parallel: Working Wives, Suicidal Husbands

	    Amended conclusion: Dad won't be able to take it, and he'll
	    kill himself.  Sounds like a radical plot on the part of feminist
	    educators to get rid of the men.  
	
	    I wouldn't worry too much about it, though, because...


>	most "experts" will see to it that the real beliefs of women 
>	are kept secret.
    

    Re:-1
    
    
    That was GREAT!!!!!!  :-)
    
    Sue
    (still laughing)!

    Hi Sue,
    
    I do not understand all replies, but I think that I agree with -1
    and with you too.
    Is it possible for anybody to send me an example of that review?
         
    I have the possibility to exchange to send you a french review,
    if you need.
    
    Have a good day,
    
    Annie
    
    - Alone in France ?
    

    This sounds like some publications from a fundamentalist religious
    group my mother sends me for Christmas and birthday presents every
    year.  At first I got angry.  Then I poked fun.  Later I got brave
    enough to ask her not to send them to me (and even played with the idea
    of sending her a subscription to Playboy or Penthouse in return).  Now
    I just throw them into the trash  -- where they belong -- when they 
    arrive.
    
    But she still prays for me, so I'm sure I'll see the light someday.
    
    Karen

    I have a freind who gets "the truth".  The thing that bugs me is
    that my freind isn't that bright and really thinks this mag is the
    real truth...He's not even very religious.
    
    The Truth is another right wing mag about that nasty deterioating
    American society, and those naughty feminists screaming about freedom
    of choice (pro choice...)...
    
    I'm kinda on the fence my self (politically) but it is awfully annoying
    to have a magazine so jaded by a particular viewpoint that claims
    to be the truth....it just angers me greatly!!!!
    
    But I do support ones right to freedom of speech...and I guess the
    ignorant have every right...
    
    gosh - it just bothers me!!!
    
    

    re:  But she still prays for me, so I'm sure I'll see the light someday.
    
    Sounds like you already have!  Hows the saying go?  Courage to change
    what I can, serenity to accept what I can't, and wisdom to know the
    difference.  
    
    The only thing unaccetable would be if that was *ALL* I got for
    Christmas and birthday!!!  :-)
    
    As for such things in general, you know what they say: everyone is
    entitled to thier own ridiculous opinion!
    
    Jim
    

    FWIW -	
    	Truth comes in many flavors, not all of which is real in the sense
    that it can be proven.  Take case in point :
    
    		PRAVDA  ( in Russian ) 	= TRUTH

    
    The beauty of  America is that the average man always thinks he's above
    average.
    
    America is a land of oppurtunity. Everbody can become a taxpayer.
    
    As the IRS sees it, America is land of untold wealth.
    
    America has the highest standard of living in the world. Now's lets
    raise our standard of thinking.
    
    Naturalists who claim AMerica's wildlife is disapperaing don't stay up
    very late at night.
    
    
                                   RM