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...rally over the years had always been colored by political rhetoric, talk of "empowerment" and diatribes against patriarchy. The march that followed this year's rally included chants of "Hey, Hey! Ho, Ho! the Peninsula has got to go!" and, more ad hominem, "Hey, Hey! HO, Ho! Kelly Bowdren's got to go!" I fail to see how these dismal dithryambs serve the cause of women's safety...
Listening to the women that night, what I heard had nothing to do with hating men or blaming men in general for their "problems" (an interesting way to refer to sexual abuse). kelly implies that everyone, including peninsula-types, cares equally about ending violence against women, and thus the "feminist" perspective of Take Back the Night is deceptively biased against conservative views on the issue...
...watched G. Brent McGuire '95, peninsula council member, take the mike early in the evening and begin to crack jokes. Before he made too much of a fool of himself the mike was cut off, but before every person watching could see one conservative's expression of his "compassion" for the issue of stopping violence against women. Perhaps this illustration from someone purportedly in he same camp twill help kelly realize what these women are up against...
Kelly talks about a "real solution" which "would attempt to forge some compassion between the sexes." it's an admirable sentiment. But the male-female ratio at the event looked much more equitable than on any Peninsula masthead I've seen. And I don't even need to mention the difference between the men who went up to the mike to support a friend and the wannabe comic representing the patriarchy...
...find reasons to justify her distaste for Feminism, not to find material for her next peninsula article, but to realize that the people speaking could be her loved ones just as easily as not. And then perhaps she'd really begin to listen. Inie Part...