Comments on: With Strength, With Wisdom, With Solidarity: Reflections on the Importance of International Women’s Day http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/with-strength-with-wisdom-with-solidarity-reflections-on-the-importance-of-international-women%e2%80%99s-day/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:31:02 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lloyd Rowsey http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/with-strength-with-wisdom-with-solidarity-reflections-on-the-importance-of-international-women%e2%80%99s-day/#comment-16467 Lloyd Rowsey Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:26:21 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/with-strength-with-wisdom-with-solidarity-reflections-on-the-importance-of-international-women%e2%80%99s-day/#comment-16467 Thank you Mike McNiven. Apparenty, you-me-Ms.Marshall-thetwo-alices-and-Elizabeth are the only persons reading DV that still consider sexism a major problem in this world. (And that's only a guess regarding those persons other than you and me, with respect to DV's readership.) GL Rowsey Thank you Mike McNiven. Apparenty, you-me-Ms.Marshall-thetwo-alices-and-Elizabeth are the only persons reading DV that still consider sexism a major problem in this world. (And that’s only a guess regarding those persons other than you and me, with respect to DV’s readership.)

GL Rowsey

]]> By: Mike McNiven http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/with-strength-with-wisdom-with-solidarity-reflections-on-the-importance-of-international-women%e2%80%99s-day/#comment-15958 Mike McNiven Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:20:27 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/with-strength-with-wisdom-with-solidarity-reflections-on-the-importance-of-international-women%e2%80%99s-day/#comment-15958 Ms. Marshall, Thank you, and Happy March 8th to you too! Women Rights are human rights! And they are being violated in Afghanistan and Iraq with the US taxpayers' funds! No ERA abroad, no ERA at home! Even this 2008 selection is disgustingly sexist! In the name of campaigning, anything goes! Ms. Marshall,

Thank you, and Happy March 8th to you too! Women Rights are human rights!
And they are being violated in Afghanistan and Iraq with the US taxpayers’ funds! No ERA abroad, no ERA at home!
Even this 2008 selection is disgustingly sexist! In the name of campaigning, anything goes!

]]> By: Lloyd Rowsey http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/with-strength-with-wisdom-with-solidarity-reflections-on-the-importance-of-international-women%e2%80%99s-day/#comment-15835 Lloyd Rowsey Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:47:37 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/with-strength-with-wisdom-with-solidarity-reflections-on-the-importance-of-international-women%e2%80%99s-day/#comment-15835 SHAME dissident voice readers. What is it? You don't know the name Elizabeth Holtzman? Or Alice Miller? Or Alice Walker? Or you actually think women have it "made" in America due t o male concessions, much less elsewhere? If so, I say you're just resentful. And if you don't "get my drift," here's a few words I just finished reading from a recently published interview-autobiography: " Question: “(Are you concerned about discrimination against women?)” “Fighting discrimination against women was tough; we even had to pass a law regulating morality, in a sense, The Family Law, stipulating a man’s obligation to share household chores, cooking, childcare, with his wife…We’ve made great progress in that area. The immense majority of young people entering the Universities was female. Because at the age of secondary school and pre-university, females are more studious and get better grades, in a word. And since they were admitted on the basis of their scholastic record… We send our doctors to many countries around the world. There are some countries where the local culture makes it hard for you to send a woman to provide medical services, but you’d call for young people to study medicine, males and females, and two out of three who applied would be women. Sometimes, for a field of study, you’d say, ‘Well, we have an urgent need for such-and-such,” and in those cases males would even be exempted from military service (to encourage them to attend school), but of every three admissions on the basis of transcripts, two would be women. We had to impose quotas – let’s say 45% men and 55% women, because the vast majority of those who met the criteria (for admission) would be women. That process, for those reasons, translates into a tremendous growth in the number of women in the technical labor force, so that today, 65 per cent of the country’s technical forces is female. ….Women have made their own way – they’re a force to be reckoned with. What we may need to have in the future is a Federation of Cuban Men!” SHAME dissident voice readers. What is it? You don’t know the name Elizabeth Holtzman? Or Alice Miller? Or Alice Walker? Or you actually think women have it “made” in America due t o male concessions, much less elsewhere?

If so, I say you’re just resentful. And if you don’t “get my drift,” here’s a few words I just finished reading from a recently published interview-autobiography:

” Question: “(Are you concerned about discrimination against women?)”

“Fighting discrimination against women was tough; we even had to pass a law regulating morality, in a sense, The Family Law, stipulating a man’s obligation to share household chores, cooking, childcare, with his wife…We’ve made great progress in that area.

The immense majority of young people entering the Universities was female. Because at the age of secondary school and pre-university, females are more studious and get better grades, in a word. And since they were admitted on the basis of their scholastic record…

We send our doctors to many countries around the world. There are some countries where the local culture makes it hard for you to send a woman to provide medical services, but you’d call for young people to study medicine, males and females, and two out of three who applied would be women.

Sometimes, for a field of study, you’d say, ‘Well, we have an urgent need for such-and-such,” and in those cases males would even be exempted from military service (to encourage them to attend school), but of every three admissions on the basis of transcripts, two would be women. We had to impose quotas – let’s say 45% men and 55% women, because the vast majority of those who met the criteria (for admission) would be women. That process, for those reasons, translates into a tremendous growth in the number of women in the technical labor force, so that today, 65 per cent of the country’s technical forces is female.

….Women have made their own way – they’re a force to be reckoned with. What we may need to have in the future is a Federation of Cuban Men!”

]]> By: Lloyd Rowsey http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/with-strength-with-wisdom-with-solidarity-reflections-on-the-importance-of-international-women%e2%80%99s-day/#comment-15759 Lloyd Rowsey Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:18:04 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/with-strength-with-wisdom-with-solidarity-reflections-on-the-importance-of-international-women%e2%80%99s-day/#comment-15759 Wow. I guess DV has a lot of feminist readers! (Sarcasm.) Wow. I guess DV has a lot of feminist readers! (Sarcasm.)

]]> By: Lloyd Rowsey http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/with-strength-with-wisdom-with-solidarity-reflections-on-the-importance-of-international-women%e2%80%99s-day/#comment-15725 Lloyd Rowsey Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:03:23 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/with-strength-with-wisdom-with-solidarity-reflections-on-the-importance-of-international-women%e2%80%99s-day/#comment-15725 thank you, lucinda. there is also alice miller. and the astonishing website of just "alice" at http://www.pscelebrities.com/whitelightblacklight/ To change names, I've liked Elizabeth (Holtzman) for Obama’s running mate for some time now. thank you, lucinda. there is also alice miller. and the astonishing website of just “alice” at

http://www.pscelebrities.com/whitelightblacklight/

To change names, I’ve liked Elizabeth (Holtzman) for Obama’s running mate for some time now.

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