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...this could be why Boyle wasn't featured as one of Peninsula's "Women of the Year" or why no self-described feminist was, either. But my real interest in describing the misdirected efforts of Boyle and those like her is to defend those the Council did pick. In the centerfold of the most recent issue of Peninsula, we each selected the woman we thought deserved recognition. The winners were Abigail Adams, Mother Teresa, Maggie Gallagher and the United Daughters of the Confederacy...
These women, of course, were not the women everyone would have chosen. In his opinion piece on this page last Saturday, "Here She Comes, Miss Peninsula," Michael K. Mayo is less than subtle in suggesting that we at Peninsula have not a clue what being a real woman in the '90s means. (And yet, like Boyle, Mayo seems to suggest that he does know.) Only two of our winners "have actually done something new since the Eisenhower administration," says Mayo. The four highlighted women--"a columnist, a future saint, a dead white woman, and group of women who revere...
...Confederacy--was much loftier. Dredging up the whole Confederate flag ordeal, Mayo suggests that these ladies exist to offend the likes of Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, rather than to preserve Southern culture. Mayo responds to Woods' description of Moseley-Braun as an "arrogant elite" by suggesting that Peninsula is presumptuous in suggesting that a Black female could actually be an elite. I hope all of those who feel black women are unqualified to be members of the elite are, like Mayo, no longer part of the conservative movement...
...keep Radcliffe in the picture is to say that we're not full fledged Harvard students," said Kelly A. Bowdren '94, a council member of Peninsula...
...forum was co-sponsored by the HarvardSalient, Peninsula, Perspective...