Reply #77: thanks for your concern

[iverglas]

Of course, only if I believed you had any would I be speaking other than sarcastically.

he drags out gun laws and somehow expects this to substitute for any meaningful strategies.

Well aren't YOU just the expert on all things James Ridgeway?

Educate yourself.

I'll get you started.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0340,mondo3,47458,6.html

Talking a Good Game
And Then There's Bush's Record on Women and Children
by James Ridgeway
October 1 - 7, 2003

In his UN speech last week, Bush sounded as if he were taking up the cudgel against sex trafficking in women and children. ...

... Along with two other nations in the world—Afghanistan and São Tomé and Principe—the U.S. has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. ...

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0314,ridgewar1,42904,6.html

James Ridgeway's War Log
Who's Who in the U.S.-Led Coalition Against Iraq?
March 26th, 2003 2:15 PM

(more on the victimization of women internationally)

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0132,mondo,27092,6.html

by James Ridgeway
August 8 - 14, 2001
Bush Puts America Under God's Law

... The main way to support fundamentalist Christians is to protect the institutions of patriarchy. In a Christer world, men carry out instructions from God, and women are men's docile assistants. Their main job is to have babies, preferably white. Otherwise, they stay in the kitchen, take care of the children, speak when spoken to, and for all intents and purposes remain the property of the husband.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0525,mondo1,65145,6.html

Pulling Up Lame
Loser versus loser: Handicapping the coming Supreme Court vacancies
by James Ridgeway
June 21st, 2005 12:25 PM

(commentary on various Republic appointees with mention of their noxious positions on things like the Violence Against Women Act)

He wrote the intro to Baghdad Burning II:
http://www.cbsd.com/inventory.aspx?id=20016



People who actually do give a shit about, and know a bit about, violence against women don't seem to have a problem with Ridgeway; his article is listed here and cited at similar places:
http://www.ncdsv.org/publications_violencewomen.html


The picture may surprise you:
http://www.motherjones.com/radio/2006/05/ridgeway_bio.html

Not young, not pretty, but not somebody that would make me desperately want a shower if I found myself in bed with him. Not like your bedmates.

He does quite a lot of other stuff too, you know, that all connects up with that "climate toward women":

http://www.mediarights.org/film/blood_in_the_face

A darkly humorous and frightning closeup view of today's far-right movement. Blood in the Face uses archival footage and interviews to reviel the workings of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, the Aryan Nations, and David Duke. The most controversial and compelling film of the year, Blood in the Face is as timely and powerful.

With interviews by Michael Moore (Roger & Me), the film was conceived by James Ridgeway (political correspondent for The Village Voice and author of the book Blood in the Face) with co-producers Anne Bohlen (Academy Award Nominee) and Kevin Rafferty (co-producer of The Atomic Cafe) who also shot and edited the film.

Google him. Spend a week catching up.



So anyhow, I guess when you say:

Instead of trying to come up with any real proposals toward changing the climate toward women ...

you're pretty much speaking from utter ignorance. And abject laziness -- since you obviously did precisely nothing to determine whether your statement was true before making it, the onus being on you to do that.

In any event, the obvious rebuttal to that statement was contained within the one article you appear to have skimmed, itself: the very fact that violence against women is routinely DISREGARDED is a cornerstone of that whole "climate toward women" thang you are clucking about.