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IT'S YOUR By Gina Ogden OWN FAULT!" 34 Exposing Health Chauvinism By Fred Pelka NINJUTSU 38 The Power of a Dirty Look By Lisa Susan Skittone ON THE ISSUES • SPRING 19 9 4 •VOLUME III NUMBER TWO FRONT LINES JSSUES VOL III NO.2 SPRING 1994 Publisher/ Editor in Chief MERLE HOFFMAN Editor RONNI SANDROFF RONNI SANDROFF Executive Editorial Consukant LINDA CUTSTEIN BEWARE Editor at Large PHYLLIS CHESLER Special Projects Advisors OF ANNE MOLLEGEN SMITH PHALLIC JOHN STOLTENBERC Assistant Editors DRIFT KAREN AISENBERC SUZANNE LEVIME Contrihuting Editors JILL BENDERLY CHARLOTTE BUNCH VINIE BURROWS A compass needle always drifts to the ELAYNE CLIFT ^JL North, no matter how you turn the instrument. Phallic Drift is the IRENE DAVALL BELL HOOKS I ^L similar, powerful tendency for public discussion of gender issues to FLO KENNEDY ML BI drift, inexorably, back to the male point of view. FRED PELKA ELAYNE RAPPINC Phallic Drift is when television coverage of incest concentrates on the injus- HELEN M. STUMMER tices done to a few falsely accused male victims, while the masses of genuine CAROL WHEELER Designers (female) victims fade to invisibility. BOB CIANO Phallic Drift is when the "radical feminists" invited to talk shows are the women JOSEPH PASCHKE who take the "enough already" male-friendly point of view that the gender wars Photo Editor are won and feminism is already victorious (see "A Wolf in Feminist Clothing" NINA SUBIN Advertising and Sales Director by PhyUis Chesler). CAROLYN HANDEL Phallic Drift is when female sexual desire is worth discussing only in terms of Circulation/Business Consultant how it affects, or threatens, men (see Gina Ogden on "Women Who Love Sex"). WARREN BRAREN Phallic Drift is •when efforts to combat acquaintance rape are labeled puritanism, Miss Grundyism, anti-erotic, and anti-fun—all code words for taking the (male) sport out of sex. 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