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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Tuesday, March 29, 1983 Page Eight Me forla wmskeirs JyimCc(St meairDs fire different groups scattering off to China, the Soviet Union, their missions aren't of vital importance after all, they the Middle East, South America, Japan and Europe, with have yet to return but we can't help but smile at the each junket puniung different interests. Tip O'Neill's ''.prospects. The fact of the matter is that over the years, group, for example, will discuss "trade and defense" with while matters the Chinese, Idaho Sen: Steven congressmen and senators have used the junket for less will several nations in South than legitimate reasons, with the whole undertaking, in tour Symms, among others, America to talk over "economic problems'' in the region. fact, becoming a bit of a jaded tradition in American ' come The problems when congressmen get their politics. . for and is around search solutions turned the a case a bad few It of priorities gives undoubtedly apples spoiling the way to the beaches, cocktail parties and other forms of whole barrel, but since it is politicians we are' talking frivolity either that or the junket is such a ringer in the about, the suspicions persist nonetheless, and the first place that representatives have little choice. Cheshire grins will continue whenever the word is is No one accusing this year's "fact finding" tourists of mentioned. In the American political dictionary "junket" has become synonymous with "free ride.' taking a vacation at the taxpayers' expense or saying that With the Senate and House of Representatives recessed for the Easter break, the weather lousy, the serious budget tussles still down the road this summer and perhaps most woes still about a year away, importantly, the is what the weary, overworked, underpaid congressman to re-elec- tion do? Junket! Yes, as American as apple pie and a golden opportunity to leave all their problems behind, junket time is our elected officials' favorite season of the year, as they jet oft toward all corners bf the globe in search of truth, justice, a few business deals for influential constituents and maybe if there is time maybe a little sun and fun. Over this particular season for instance, we have -- , Threat of equality difficult crossroad for men guest column She killed the conversation when she asked if I was threatened because I made a point about sexist exclusion in essay, and we were talking about it when she turned the conversation, into a threat against me. I told hqr any man who reads Dworkin and is not threatened is crazy. It is a good book, and it also threatens women who are not radical but conservative, moderate or even by Gregory Wood "A man of quality is not threatened by a woman for equality" is a quote with no attribution which appears in the Conference for Women and Men calendar printed in the New VoicesNero Realities magazine. I find this quote interesting because I think the most difficult crossroad for a man who is trying to discover equality is the threat. Four years ago the real threat to me was that females are not emotionally as weak as I think and are not at my sexual disposal even in magazines, for pornography is violence against women. Today the unreal threat to me is that if I disagree with left wing feminist positions, I am an uppity, threatened, phony, radical male. The first threat, from four years ago, is real. The idea of women as accessible and subject wnf Ae&n into th crr. Trip swnnH threat is contrived in that I spent a long time breaking out of sexism, that I fell back and have to break out again, that I overcame the first threat, and that I know these things. Sometimes I discuss feminism, and I disagree with left wing thought and am accused of being threatened. I read Andrea Dworkin's Pornography, and it made clear in my mind that pornography is violence against women. I agree with Dworkin 99.9 percent. When I told a friend this she asked what was the 0.1 percent that I did not agree with. I said that since it's only 0.1 percent, why harp on it. She said that's true but she was curious. I said that when Dworkin says old men send young men to war, she excludes the fact that old women send young men to war. I said that for 10 years women have told me to include both sexes when talking about jobs, potentials ' and accomplishments, and that women had sensitized me to the point. My friend said Dworkin's exclusion seemed unimportant and ' asked me if I was threatened. I n T liberal. A woman in my neighborhood came to my apartment a few days ago and said she was worried because her daughter was attracted to me. She asked me to steer clear of her woman-chil- d daughter. She told me about her present husband,, her violent her six children and her complex family life. I told her I would avoid her daughter, that I was 29 and had never married or dealt with complex family matters,; that I knew men were tod violent, and that I better understood men's violence after reading feminist literature. She said she was glad she had talked to me and that she thought I was gay and, since she thought that, there was no reason to worry about her daughter. I am not gay, though a man who studies feminist literature and who talks about it is thought to be gay. This is not a threat. It is a fact I learn to live with. I have a friend who teaches in the English department at the University. I knew her in high school. I remember when she was head cheerleader and when she wore a miniskirt uniform and shook pompons. She jumped on the sidelines when I played basketball and she led the chant, "Greg, Greg, he's our man. If he can't do it, nobody can." My ego exploded. .' I have no male friends with whom I can discuss sexism and equality. Most men I know are sexist and racist. I am less able to discuss radical equality with men than I am able to discuss it with women. Most men I know have the first threat of equality I talk about to deal with, so they don't want to hear my words. . old , v C fNTRV DEADLINE WHO . Softball March . . Jilii M-- BEGINS 31 April April S April 5 6 Bowling April April April April 11 , M-- "c Waltyball NoH-PUNcTiOH- , ' April April 11 April April 11 April Team Handball ' April KTN. NEW& 6 11 April ' M-- April IS April 16 ., M-- May 2 May 13 M-- May S M-- May 10 May 11 May 10 May 12 May 18 May 19 ' May 27 May 30 CoH Tournament . Field Meet - M-- ' Night Owl Run ' M-- Memorial Day Softball Tournament April tndMduats partdpale In r& CiHRNiteLV Intramural activities at their own rtikl V . r 1axP3(YeR PieRCiNG A "waste, FRaop dHP MigMaroeeMeNT SaccHaRiHe For SweeTeNiMG Deaus 1983 II 8 HeaR& MX MiSSlLfi GHeY'U-- Rmp CcPLace For it) DoeUp . . ' I 5 we , Do you need upper division hours in six departments? 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', C0T-P&SC0Nltoc- aL CPS 8 April 11 M-- Bike Race Track 6 "April 6 Volleyball Endurance Race X grWGM Inncrtube Water Triathalon J k ACTIVITY Tennis Racquetball Doublet '? &fSTeM R fl L$ if inTRAmURAL SCH6DUL6 Soccer SYSfeM - UniVRSITV OF UTAH ACTIVITY CMBiKdTiOK CoNGReS&JoKaL JffOHD$ PRY 3N& WHIS1U- SSkK BIPW&R PLUG Weapon nd, t3 A HI U SPRING QUARTER Robin Morgan's Politics of Freedom and Andrea Dworkin's Pornography. If they feel the threat, they should push it aside and read on for, though the threat is big, it is not lethal and it shrinks. They will find little or no support from men and little or some support from women. ' -- . Many women will listen. v I say to men who feel threatened by the women's movement that they are trying to open a door and should read Joan Beck and Georgia Ann Guyer in the Tribune editorial pages. They should read Timothy Beneke's Men on Rape, - 1 J ' |
