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...Farce of Feminism” (Editorial, Oct. 16, 2001), I have no objection to people opposing feminism, or at least discussing it. Unfortunately, Rebecca E. Rubins’ Editor’s Notebook was riddled with factual errors and logical fallacies, which make her piece simple polemic rather than meaningful argument...
...broader factual and semantic problem in her article is that she doesn’t seem even to understand what the word feminism means. If she did the most elementary research, she would know that there are equalitarian feminists as well as so-called difference feminists, and that conflating the two is highly inaccurate. The fact of the matter is, many equalitarian feminists oppose “women-only” groups, arguing (as Rubins does) that they actually create negative gender-based distinctions. A difference feminist—who thinks men and women are different, but equally important...
...potentially dangerous situation, students do have other resources besides the safety of a House. The emergency phones around campus ensure rapid response by HUPD. But whether or not the alleged assault is factual, the student’s description of her reaction to danger was scarily realistic. We can easily forget only too late that it is 1:05 a.m. and we can no longer swipe to safety...
...What we’ve done is we’re sending around to the city councillors the same background factual material that we sent to the media,” said Travis McCready, director of community affairs, just before the meeting...
...Public Affairs responded to the order by faxing information about the bin Laden scholarships and the non-terrorist members of the family to City Hall. “What we’ve done is we’re sending around to the city councillors the same background factual material that we sent to the media,” said Travis McCready, director of community affairs, just before the meeting...