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Show ifestyles PAGE8 “WASATCH COUNTY GouRTER JuLy 13, 1999 a continued from page 4 : _ W.LG. also sponsors Boarding for Breast Cancer, an annu- into the history of W.I.G., Gasperini’s then-printer halted — the presses on a 3:00 a.m. run of WLG. Gasperini had. shown up to do a press check when she found out. “They said some of the pictures might be degrading to women in their office and they refused to continue to print _ the issue,” Gasperini says. Amazed at thei irony, after all, W.I.G. is a magazine with a feminist slant, but desperate, Gasperini scraped together new artwork for the. Magazine and finished the print job. But not before the ACLU got involved and a lawsuit ensued. Gasperini never printed with the Salt Lake firm again. “Part of me wanted to move,” says Gasperini in retro- — spect. But instead, that which didn’t kill WG. made it stronger. The amount of publicity that WIG. received from the censorship i issue was immense. “We were even written up in the Village Voice,” she says. WIG. does have a feminist voice, but it’s a new generation of feminism, one that relishes itself in all the glories of womanhood. One that doesn’t hate men and in fact _loves men, just not the gender roles that have been arbitrarily handed down from generation to generation. W.1.G. is intelligent. WIG. celebrates the real woman and what she does, not the 90 lb. supermodel and what she looks like. Pimasingly, 30 Baer of WI.G.’s subscribers are men. al snowboarding fundraiser promoting awareness early detection of breast cancer in young women. and _— Gasperini conceived of the idea after a close friend of hers _ in the snowboard apparel industry died of breast cancer at the age of 29. Boarding for Breast Cancer now accounts for around 25 percent of Gasperini’s over-filled work load top of her ROY man-hating,” says on eee Subscribers are peppered throughout the United States and over-seas. And for the most part, W..G. has no distribution problem. Until it enters Utah. “Utah is our worst distribution problem. WG. gets _ dropped from Barnes and Noble and Borders in Salt Lake constantly,” says Gasperini. She tells tales of going into nee _ Barnes and Noble undercover asking for W.G., only to be told the sales clerk that W.I.G.’s publisher, a man, has gone out of business. Gasperini seems to take some irri- _tated joy in telling them she’s the publisher and W.I. G. is i still very much in business. _. In Wasatch County, there are no outlets. for Ww LG. but. Li LAI TL Gasperini | i is quick to point out that there are really no outlets for magazines, outside of the grocery stores. Both Dolly’s bookstore and A Woman’s Place Soeur! in Park City do carry WG. ~Gasperini has a dream of auteitg a copy of WIG. in every 17-25 year old girl’s hands or maybe the lockers of every female Wasatch High School student, just to open their eyes. Her theory is that if they’ve never seen the dif_ ference, if they’ve never experienced life outside the security of the — Valley, how can ney know what their eompOns are? © - For the most part, reactions are very positive to WI. G. Gasperini does receive the occasiona! hate mail from men, usually of readers “We’re not Deep down, though, athe is a realistic dreamer, wanting desperately to change the world while intentionally surrounding herself with people who can keep her grounded. But narrow minds sometimes perceive Gasperini’s role differently, and Gasperini accepts this and moves on. “In a way, I’m like Frankenstein,” she says. “Except that the monster’s already made. I’m just its mother.” — But~ unlike Frankenstein’s monster, Gasperini’s monster, W.G., has a message, an important one, a fun one—one that could help eaape the women of a future generation. whose girlfriends dumped them, according to the boyfriend, because they started reading WILG. But WIG. is not Ms. Magazine. WIG. targets a new generation of women and a new continued from. page 6 and the Blue Boutique go out of business due to lack of bee own backyard. est? Men seem to like to be cat called, like these expressions are more than annoying nuisances when delivered by womenlike they’re actual come-ons. Or in a more condescending way, isn’t it cute that that little girl- wants to pretend she’ s the man. Pant, pant, pant. : : _ Suppose women acted on the catcalls. ‘Would men aie _ women pair off like poodles and table legs right there in the streets? Would the corner of McDonalds and High School have to be blocked off to all traffic? Would Victoria’ s Secret started to change? What if for prom dates, then slowly moving up the ranks of big busihess, slithering through the lower rungs of the political arena to make their way to the ieee ranking offices. that do for the price of cigars? But wait, so much of this has already EE What would oe Women do instigate the relationships and we more often than not also Initiate their ends. Women do head up large corporations and small businesses, and we’re making rapid advances in poli- tics. Women do hold positions of power; be they in the fami-. | ly or in business or in both. We give birth to the children, give life to dinner’s dead slab of meat, we pay bills, we pay taxes. We’re sports stars, we’re film stars, we’ re musicians, astronauts and scholars. So with all of this going on, why am I still getting cat calls while watering the lawn? “Cuz in the immortally retarded thoughts of my- very, very, very ex-boyfriend, it makes us gals féel wanted, it makes us feel needed, it makes us feel special. And, according to him, ‘we'd be more ticked off if we never heard them at all. 4 It’s always hot, therefore the men always cat call. In Heber it’s hot only in the summer, therefore men prone to the cat call appear to hold all their pent up hormones until July. I’ve tried reversing the roles, verbally demeaning men, Just to see how they would like it and unfortunately, they do. But I don’t. It seems I have never been too adept at whistling and screaming “woo, e “hey baby,” or “how “bout some fries with that shake,” out the window of a speeding car without getting a mouthful of suicidal bugs. ss. What if other societal ae women became the instigators, starting off small by asking e = al It seems the heat has something to do with it. In Texas, Si EBs L La LA Li 1A Calls ex-boyfriends breed of feminism. Gasperini. |