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MSU's alternative •What's Op ... p.3 •Scratch Dog Boy... p. 7 and •Review... p. 7 truly independent • Let us Entertainment you._.. p. 6-8 • Biting Provoc returns ... p.8 voice Poor service? Medical care for underprivileged lags An article published in the New Eng ­ · chances that the treatment wiU cure the by J. DOUGLAS WARREN land journal of Medicine titled. "Social patient against the cost of the treatment uR-1 Special Correspondent and Economic Factors in the Choice of both to the patient and the hospital. Lung Cancer Treatment" indicated pa­ This pressure to save money foJJows the Does society's upper class receive tients were treated more extensively if doctor to the bedside and puts them in an better medical treatment than the middle they · had private medical insurance uncomfortable position. Tomlinson said. class? rather than Medicare. This non-medical "On the one hand. they are obligated by Even if you have insurance. does your variable seemed to affect the amount and , their traditional ethics to be concerned economic standing in general make a type of treatment a patient would receive, only with the welfare of the patient.· . he difference in what kind of medical treat­ the study stated. said. "But. on the other hand. (they are) ment you will receive? E. R. Greenberg, author of the study. under pressure to control costs ... becom ­ Possibly yes. according to some re­ said cancer patients with private medical ing agents of the hospital or social policy searchers and medical · experts. that is trying to Having medical contain health care insurance does not cost. always insure that "The physician person wiH receive - who regularly pro­ the best and most duces lots of costs is ·extensive medical going to come under treatment available scrutiny by the for a major iHness. hospital." he said. such as cancer. But Denny Lar­ Sometimes. because son. a publfc rela­ of a patient's ·1ack tions coordinator of financial ability for Blue Cross and to make long-term Blue Shield of medical payments. Michigan. said he a doctor wiJl alter thinks "the two­ treatment. leve l health care ) "We (the United system probably States) have always went on somewhat had a two-JeveJ uR-1 illustration/BUNKY CORRIGAN .with the (insur­ health care system, ance) programs in insurance were more likely to be treated the past... but now we have reimburse­ but it's becoming more and more acCJte with possibly curative surgery. Among ment on diagnosis" to make things more than in the past." said Dr. Tom Tomlinson. those who did not have surgery. people · even. an associate professor in the Center for with private insurance were more likely · The question of cost creates an ethi­ Ethics and Humanities in MSU's Life to receive radiation. chemotherapy and cally moral conflict for physicians. Sciences department. other cancer treatments. Tomlinson maintained. The ability to pay - or the perceived Greenberg's study dealt with lung "Unfortunately, sometimes that pres­ ability to pay - does have an impact on cancer because the goal of the treatment sure produces decisions that go against the form of treatment patients receive. generally is just to lengthen the patient's the patient's best interest." he said. Tomlinson · said. In a hospital emergency Jife in absence of a cure. Surgery and While caught in this ethical dilemma. room. fOr example. "it is not uncommon radiation therapy each entail prolonged some doctors try to get aiore money for for patients' who can't show adequate hospital treatment and considerable their patients by reporting false diagno­ insurance to be transported to... another expense; these factors may discourage ses or by misrepresenting the condition emergency room." he said. their use by patients who lack adequate or treatment. Tomlinson said. However. the time spent traveling to medical insurance. the study indicated. another hospital may be the ·extra time The physician. then. must w:eigh the See POOR· CARE, p. 2 needed to save the ,patient. ·~. 111a1t11t1t11-•~1awr.•1•1-11 That's Skary! Pickled Brown Betty brings their unique sound to EL . · aw9-lnsplring and all-encompassing by BETH CARTER word that skanks through their veins: uR-1 Music Correspondent ska. "Ska, it's what it's all about,• said It's your worst mother-induced Russell. 'We want to take it back to nightmare. It's that eyer-familiar its roots, to· just skanking, and have unpopular childhood dessert, with a some fun with that." malignant twist. As the only ska band in East It's Pickle Brown Betty - Lansing (to their knowledge), Pickle dessert gone bad. Brown Betty hopes to bring together 'We're not going to change the the separate band/groupie factions name; said guitarist Bill Zoyes. "It's that seem to have become the rule in supposed to grow on you, sort of like this town. athlete's foot: "Ska is basically about unity; like With three practices and one ·especially black and white unity; said show under their belts, Pickle Brown .Tomsik. "It doesn't matter who you Betty is not yet a household word. are - anybody can like our music: Having been together only two weeks.­ "Race isn't a matter; adds this pickle is really still only a gherkin. Shadomy. ·on the East Coast (at s~ uR-1photo/BETH CARTER Pickle Brown Betty, which con­ mod shows), you've got black skin­ With tastes running from Box car sists of Zoyes, vocalist/mover Scott heads, white skinheads, you've got Wiiiy and George Clinton to the Red Osbourne's "Crazy Train,· sounding . Russell, bassist Sean Shadomy, black mods and white mods, rudies, Hot-.chilll Peppers, Shinehead, like it was meant to be sak all along. '.. . brassman Bill "Mr. Horns" Turner, all different types, not beating each AshbOne, and current East Coast They've even gone so far as to dig the percussionist Steve Tomsik and other up but bas'ically skanking and mod/ska bands like the Now, Pickle Skatalites "Freedom Sounds" from drummer Jacques Duskin, has having a good time: Brown Betty puts on a show that's 1963. already stirred-up quite a following, A good time, afterall, is what it's sure to please the whole family. Their Come and s·erve yourself up a after only their first show at Zolton all about. current set indudes some originals piping hot slice of Pickle Brown Betty House Jan. 20. "If it stops being fun,· said Zoyes. and such covers as Clinton's "Get Off this weekend at 418 M.A.C. And they owe it all to the unifying, 'We'll stop.· Your Ass and Jam; and Ozzy But please, be prepared to dance. Week in, week out - I have to shout!

skirts••• Reader? Is George Perlas his boss? Speaking of cars - Greek letters Either video games are getting Better yet, brudder, Is George Perlas and symbols on the rear window are, easier, or you genetic defective bozos included in the stats? (One too many as far as I'm concerned, an open playing them are getting more stupid. brewskis in the locker room with invitation that says, "Run me off the In my video heyday, we blew Blake, perhaps). road!" At least, that seems to be the space aliens into cosmic bits and I guess the life expectancy of a loose translation. the squished the green guts out of mechanical fart reader couldn't be Provocateur Frogger on Grand River's electronic much longer than the time MSU IDEA twih. Nowadays, the big thing is to lasted. And how does it read those save the Princess. Silent but Deadly bombs·that over­ Let the slut Princess save herself! whelm you during a lecture? Hasn't Nintendo heard of Women's Inquiring minds want to know. Lib? I expect blood, guts and gore for Greetings, salutations and my hard-earned quarter! And another thing: You know that ·general ill-will to you, ya conform­ Better yet, maybe the Board of corner where you drive into Cedar ist snotrags. If last week's Per/es Trustees can save her. They seem to Village off Bogue Street? Haven't you decision didn't pull your lntensti­ be MSU's resident experts on blood, . wondered how long it'd be till some­ nes into shit-knotting balls, we've guts and gore. one pulling out got hit? You can't see got a few of our own digestive aids. to pull out, or so says my personal So pull out the umbrella and cover According to my idol and rumored chauffer. Not to mention that the line that dandruff-ridden bald head of father George Carlin, there are 15 of sight is always blocked by a gum­ <·>: ·:·:· >: ·:·: -:- :.: -:.: . . yours, becauu the Provoc's back million yards of cattle farts yearly (they chewing blonde pulling pebbles out of :>~ <<<:>)< .... ·.·.·.·.·.·.·.· .·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.· .· ...... · .·.·.·.· .·.·.·.·.· ·.·.· ·.·.<·: to rain on your pa~e•.• know by figuring the amount of feed her ~ shoes, or a phlegm-hawking, they're given). honest-to-God evolutionary throw­ How much is the National Fart . back. Thoughts collected while scour­ Reader getting paid to tabulate the As for me, I can't even see over ing Pinball Pete's floor for stray flim-flam-fllllttts of livestock? Does the damn dashboard. quarters and peeks up passing MSU have its own Lifestock Fart ···:::::::::··· :·m·· ···· · · ·w111··: v·~·a4~:····:i:c 2· university Reporter-Intelligencer 31 January, 1990

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·And." Tomlinson added. "that's not a good thing." About 37 million people in the U.S. today are without health insurance. Beyond that. millions more with insur­ ance falsely believe the busi­ ness or economic side of their troubles already have been settled in case they become seriously ill.

dfCbiA II A1U:J? Stallion Burger Special Let Us Help You Out-Come To: Stallion burger w/ fries (half lb. Gary's Campus ground beef w/ bacon, swiss, o@Jr cheddar, onion, lettuce, and tomato) Hair Salon Draft and Shot 'O' Schnapps @@f!lJjJJl@ $9.00 Uni-sex hair styling Thurs. and Sat. ('til 10 p.m.) ',4 ad~ ~~lfeuM/ Only $2.99! @@Jl 351 -6511 549 E. Grand River (next to Confection Connection) 101 E. Grand River Ave. M-F 8am-7pm Sot 9am-2pm. Home of the Sharkbowl! ·1 31 Januaq(, 1990 university Reporter-Intelligencer• 7 I 1 Reviews Roger B!Jd Me the injustice of the system but relent­ worker who now has become a prison man driven to extremes to tell his Roger and Me lessly shows no pity for its victims, guard. The guard protests loudly, story. Some of the scenes of wealth who accept the plant's closing as a over the background noise of prison­ are filtered, providing a fantasy effect "'W Directed by Michael Moore "fait accompli" and get on with the task ers threatening to kill each other, how that contrasts with the sharply focused ~ Written by MlchMI Moore of surviving. much better his new job is. pictures of poverty. · The corporate world, represented In his anger and Impotence against Moore presents a completely by HELEN FORDHAM by Tom Kay, rationalizes GM's what is occurring around him, Moore unvarnished picture to the world. uR-1 Cinema Correspondent decision to close the fadories by strips these survivors of any dignity Moore's search for Roger ends at a maintaining that big business does not with a black humor. Christmas party in Detroit when, Roger and Me is a b"ing satire on have an obligation to its workers. Moore does not overtly condemn, against the background of Roger's American society. Michael Moore, Ironically, the same big business ethic but rather allows his carefully con­ message of charity and kindness, we director and producer of this "celebra­ that destituted so many workers is structed picture to speak for Itself. see a black family being evicted from tion of human tragedy; pulls no touted as the solution to Flint's Scene after scene of appalling poverty their Flint home. punches. No one is spared in this problems. Get up and do something, and fabulous wealth are juxtaposed Roger and Me is an ironic look at merciless lampooning of a world in Anita Bryant advocates from her safe, against each other. To the strains of cor'porate America. Moore is the self­ which the rich get richer and the poor affluent world. 'Wouldn't It be Nice· and "I'm So appointed Hunter S. Thompson of the become destitute. The film Is full of real people. Lucky," we view the harsh reality of a screen. Like Thompson, he features Moore's rage against a com pas­ Moore has strung together interviews­ dying.town. in his own work and makes vitupera­ sionless, self-serving society is given with hundreds of people who tell the Although it is obvious Moore has tive attacks on society. Moore rips vent in this semi-documentary on th~ story of Flint in their own words. carefully edited his reality, often doing away the veil shrouding the myth of closing of the General Motors factory Through careful editing, Moore has an injustice to his subjects, the the American success story and in Flint, which resulted in the loss of allowed these people to damn them­ audience can only share his outrage shows the underbelly of big business. more than 30,000 jobs. selves in this satirical masterpiece. as millions of dollars are spent on He bludgeons the audience with a The film is narrated by Moore, . Moore's satire has all the subtle making the town a tourist attraction, reality that you can only laugh at letting us follow his search through a manner of a sledgehammer. He while the unemployed are reduced to because it is all too real. series of exclusive dubs and "martini interviews the Michigan beauty queen, selling their blood to the local blood What he says may be true, but his lunches" for the general manager of . who - against a backdrop of bank. excess must lose him credibility in a GM, Roger Smith, in an attempt to boarded-up shops and unemployed The cinematography of Roger and country that needs to believe in the discuss the plant's dosing. Along the loiterers - flippantly dismisses the Me is amateurish, but don't be corporate system and with people who way, we are introduced to a kaleido­ problems of the city and asks the distracted by the jerky camera swings have built their business ethic on scope of characters. people to root for her In the national and out-of-focus shots. They serve to success and survival of the fittest. Moore Is by no means champion­ beauty pageant. _ · heighten the humor and contribute to ing the workers. RatheF, he perceives Moore also speaks with an ex-GM . the general picture of a desperate

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...... : : :...... ~...... : ... : :...... :. :}/·:;.:· . ..· ... · ·~e~ ·' ~'ie . . . ~'l>,\~ .. ~,~'6,,. " ~~\ ~'~ ... ~~~ ~50~'1 . A\ ~~"': x~\LI'\~"' ...; .. .~tJ.~ .... ~e ~ ...... " the e . university Reporter-Intelligencer 24 January, 1990 Thanks, I •, 1 L0'1E '{OU By George! J'OHN - I LOIE­ OU~ SO.foot: Happy New Year, George Perlas. And for that fT!atter, Bon anniversaire for the "lf...\1S W1Ll­ ·next ten years. MAKE US You got everything you wanted: Athletic Director, MSU Football, More Money, assurance that you can draw NFL offers whenever you want, More Money (eventu­ 51K'ON&€Rl ally), and confidence knowing that yoLJ will have the Trustees in the palm of·your - hand for the rest of your natural life. But this time I think someone's gotten wise to your disgusting power grabbing tactics. Like the states of Michigan, New York, and the entire NCAA community - blemishing the reputation of MSU forever. Congrats. Anybody who was coming to this university for a good education and career experience (Not Student Rate Season Tic!

here is that students, faculty and Out, Out, Out alumni asked the Board to hear their voice and, in essence, were told to It's all said and done, so rather than take the proverbial long walk off a repeat the numerous and highly jus­ short green and white plank. tified criticisms of the five MSU It's that simple. Call recall coordi­ trustees who catapulted George nator Dennis Martell and volunteer Perlas into the A.O. slot and MSU to take the petitions door to door. into a national laughingstock, we Scratch your name on one as you have only one thing to say: leave the Main Library or Union. Recall those trustees, and But most of all, let those five recall them NOW. The issue isn't whether George bozos know you've had it by yanking them off their golden thrones and can handle the A.O. position, dumping them on their asses where because we all know his staff will run the office while he basks in thE;) they belong. uR-1 artwork/STEVE JABLONSKI glory of "I Told You So: The issue

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If last week's American · I think 1 ~· 11 watch the 1990 Mother- ! I Music Awards are any indication, it'll be Daughter Beauty Pageant instead. I ; ; ; two.~~:;~!~~~::~:~:!",~: ~ gram·o phone n. - a Can we expect an improvement a Nasty Vanilla taste that's left in our phonograph. this year? No sir'ee Bob, not in a year mouths (they had won at least two Peter Gabrlel - Passion • too Gram ·my n. - a gold-plated high-lit by new releases and re-union Amy's before 1dozed off). 'O controversial (Last Temptation booby prize. tours by the Dinosaurs of Rock. While Soul II Soul deserves the Q) of Christ). Who would have ever th.ought to award, they just aren't pretty enough to ~ >. Bongwater - Double Bummer • Spark the Klieg lights and shine see a year with the Bee Gees touring win. 0 .s:;, too independent. the sequins, it's time for the music at the same time as the big Tone- At the American awards, the Silli .Q 3:: Marty Wiison-Piper - Rhyme• industry's crown jewel, the Grammy'sl Loc/Milli-Vanilli show? Guess we Milli's won over Living Colour and Qi too many strings (12). Actually it's more like the Rose Bowl, just have to suck it up, and "Blame it on the Traveling Wilpury's for Best New > -g Bob Mould _ Workbook • too some second rate players vying for the Rain". Artist. And which one of the Wilbury's is O O melodic. past-tense prestige. Ya know, to look at the Grammy's new anyway, ol' Roy Boy certainly isn't, The much vaunted Grammy is one would think that it has been quite a he's as dead as their future plans. G>- I Mlracle Legion - Me & Mr. Ray supposed to be the record industry's sad year for music. The American Awards even had .C • too silly (and who's Ray?) highest honor in various catagories of Take for instance the top a catagory with the Milli's, Bon Jovi O 0 Baby Ford - Fordfrax • too outstanding achievement. Recently category, Best Album of 1989, .... and (DUDElll), and TheWorst Kids on _ Q) much acieed! ....------, ------Q) >.Lou Reed - New York• too '- .!!! realistic. ~ S The Fall - Curious Orange • too artsy-fartsy. The The - Mind Bomb • too visionary. Stone Roses - The Stone Roses • Just say no to Lovely Sonic 30 Days of Daring. Tanning Now Serving Our -~ Students Against Driving Drunk FRESH CUT FRIES for $48! and Don't Forget About and The -Residence Halls· Our Tuesday Special: Assoc,iation Buy one product All U Can Eat Coneys $1.99! Menu Present A at regular price Hot Dog $ .90 and g~ 50% off Coney Dog, chili, onions.and mustard $1.25 a second product Kraut Dog, saurkraut and of equal or lessor. mustard $1.25 Corn Dog, deep fried crispy $1.00 value. 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Call 332-2381 - ' 4• university Reporter-Intelligencer " 31 January, 1990 that, given the outrageous and ... :: : :\ :~/:\(~/? ·.. ·.·.·.·.·.·.·.<<·.·.· .. . .·. · · . < < :-: : :: :::::::://.~/ / : ;: ;:;:; :;::: : :::: .... obvious deeply sexist images and language used in that article, and the UR-l's daim to be a politically aware and responsible paper, that it was BIR-II.·.·.· .·.·.·.· . .·.·. 11111111·. .·. :-. ·· -:-· :- :- -:-·.:- :- :-:- .. :-:-: -:-:-:.:. :. ,I printed at all. Consider the following: Barclay's championing the usage ••:r-1:::::::::: .·.· .. . . ·-:-· -: -: :- . .: .:-:-:-: :-:-: :-:-:- :- . . . . of pornography when he describes his .· .·.·.·.·~· ...... need for PIAYboy's "filthy rag· to "get ofr in the iime-honored male Wa.y· of . Austin II perusing pornographic materials and Most of the things Martin L King the'misogynistic fantasies they inspire whlJ.e masturbating, and, after present­ has done· for Black people were . . .. wrong. It's a crime to teach Black ing a rambling and incoherent "argu­ ::::::. ·:: ! ...... people to be nonviolent with those ment" about the •anti-human, imperial­ ...... who are violent with us. As a Black ist" policies of the U.S. govt., he man I can't see myself standing by leaves us all to ponder his "insights• passively watching Black woman and while he ducks out io the Velvet children being brutalize by vicious four Fingers [a porn shop in doWntown legged and two legged dogs. Some Lansing which specializes in a pleth­ .·.· ·:-: -:-:-:·: ··-·- :-·-:·: -: -·-·-:- :-: people have the assumption to think ora of misogynistic sleaze] to pick up ·.· .·.·.·:.·.· .·.·.·.·.·.·. :,. ·.·.· · that it's violent to defend yourself. a couple of new [read: nastier, more One of the first laws of self preserva­ explicit] magazines to replace my [too .; .·._. · :.;-:-:-: -:-: -: tion is self defence. A dog will defend "soft1 copy of PIAYboy. • ...... · .· . .·. ·.·.·.· .·.·. itself when attacked. I also found this statement ex­ tremely offensive: Barclay's admission Martin L King also messed up ...... · ·· · · ·· ·······.· ·. ·.·. ·.·.·.·.-.· .·.·.·.· · ... Black businesses by having Black that he's "made a career out of people integrate into White Busi­ watching John Holmes [a former porn nesses. When Black people were "star] needing the 'help of four extra allowed to go t<;> White stores we hands to hold his huge dong stiff stopped patronizing Black stores; I enough to shove into some Panama­ would like to make it clear to Black nian chick who had recently been people that they can sing all they want getting it on with a donkey.· but you will never have freedom by Pornography is, to borrow and use singing. You will never get freedom more accurately two of Barclay's own by sin-ging 'We shall overcome· and terms, both anti-human and imperialis­ ignorance and irresponsibility regard­ tinue Barclay's column. There are "Keep hope alive·. You will get . tic: it sanctions male-supremacy and ing the causes and effects of pornog­ innumerable writers in the area who , freedom when you start loving and .domination while it simultaneously raphy, and it is just the kind of igno­ could present in your pages well­ depending on yourselves. God gives authorizes the depiction of women as rance which allows, and indeed, written, well-thought out, and politi­ Black people freedom every year, but objects to be used and discarded. perpetuates the continued usage of cally responsible articles on a variety we fail to take freedom by spending Pornography is a crime against pornography and its disastrous of important and relevant topics; I urge our 240 billion dollars we earn every humanity, a crime which takes its toll consequences. you to seek them out. year to someone who looks nothing on the bodies and spirits of millions of Surely the UR-I can find better like us. If every Black person contrib­ women worldwide; it must be stopped. and more responsible articles than - Elizabeth A. Gibson Barclay's attitude shows considerable · uted a certain amount of money to a this to print; and I urge you to discon- Lansing resident Black national bank we could send our own children to colleges. But no we don't want to do that, we want to beg the White man for reparations. We can make our own reparations. Large numbers of students assume that to be radical :s to have marches a~ sit-ins. That's not how I see radicalism. Radicalism to me is a deviation from the norm. Seven out of ten Blacks fail to graduate. If Black 1 people want to be radical then gradu­ ate because that's not the norm.

Peace be unto you, Geek of the Week Andre Austin We always liked Wilbur the horse, but unfortunately this Wilbur (Kathy) is something of a jackass - thereby garnering Geek o' the Week dishonors. The statistics provided by Mr. Austin cannot be verified by the It was her swing vote that gave Georgie the ~ge in a close rise to the top uR-1. (you know, like scum on a bacteria-full pond) last week. -ed Her failure to take a bold stand cost MSU its dignity and reputation. Sure, she wasn't alone, but we usually count on her for wise-decisions. This time she copped out, accepting what was thinly-veiled as a compro­ mise. Bar Barclay! Hey, we gots another compromise - give us a year to decide if we like To the Editors, what's happened to our school; if we do, we'll pay tuition. If not, sayonara sweetheart. I was extremely offended by the Sound good? Andrew Barclay column which Now that's a compromise we can live with! appeared in the January 17,1990 issue of the UR-I. I was also amazed 31 January, 1990 university Reporter-Intelligencer• 5 other (male) politicians oppose your Dr.Andrew right to make decisions about your life Barclay and your body. They're trying to force ·their values on you, regardless what you believe, -because they believe !!!!!!!!!!!i!!l@!I!!!!!! ! they are better than yo1;1. How much II I does government get into ~ · bedroom? Doc takes a When you find a non-sexist, liberated male who is willing to give you a small, but perfect, stone and question you decide to bond with him, your · ~ marriage will be a primary institution of Q: I didn't have a chance to read a racist, sexist society. It will contain your column from a few weeks ago, all the shit-elements of the larger but a friend mentioned you were angry ~ ' society. If a woman cannot earn a at Ronald and Nancy Reagan for · Combat Infantry Badge, how equal interfering in your sex life (?) and you are you going to be in your marriage? said Bush's invasion of Panama not '' • Do you think being second rate is only ruined yo1,1r Christmas but also going to affect your sex life or, putting was trashing your relationship with it another way, are you going to feel your wife. Isn't this going a little far to like making love with the person who ' blame someone for what essentially is oppressing you ? are your own problems? My boyfriend We cannot sscape from marriage and I live together and our sex life as a primary institution. This means doesn't seem to be suffering from all the society's problems will be racism or sexism. How can you reflected in your married life. Until we blame your sexual hang-ups on Bush pressure the hypocrites running this or former President Reagan's ethics? society to clean up their act, the What does government have to do divorce rate will continue to soar and with anyone's sex life? an extraordinary number of people will A: I'm glad you asked that ques­ be unhappy in '(heir primary relation­ tion because sometimes I forget ship. everyone in-the world hasn't taken my . Newsflash for guys from the World courses. My column did link presiden­ of Science: Recent research has tial ethics and my anxiety-ridden, shown that the increase in multiple trashed-out sexuality, but it has to be your mind like this, I call it illusion. you and places it between your feet, orgasmic frequency reported by seen in the context of how the crap In the animal world we can find a you cannot become bonded. Forget members of the movement for this society feeds men about our­ number of species where males and it! Women's ljberation was due to selves has ruined our ability to be females bond for life. (Lorenz sug­ Consequently, when he says, "I masturbation techniques. Followed in either human beings or, not so gested this occurs in species where love you,· ask him how much. If he is a s~set of cases by a change in incidentally, good lo'!'ers. males and females are of the same like most guys, he will hold his arms focus during coitus. Do you think First of all, studies have shown physical size and thus could kill each 'way apart and say "This much: (If he liberated men might follow a similar that living together or b9ing in love other during sexual arousal.) _P.enguin points to his crotch and says, "This pattem? Multiple ''vaginal· orgasms has nothing to do with later success in -bonding rituals resemble human · much,· drop him right there, start for "Liberated Men·? I call that marriage. Being a lover is more ·fun rituals: When the male has found a packing, and move in with your best serious "Hands-on· approach, folks, · than· being a souse because bonds female he wants to bond with, he girl friend - don't even ask why.) Say: get my drift? between lovers are highly sexually roots around on the shoreline until he "No! I mean how much: Five dollars, charged. finds an attractive object, often a fifty dollars, 250 dollars?" I predict he Barclay's Fjrst Law: If you are in a small, but perfect, stone. He picks it will say you can't compare love and relationship that feels wonderful, violin · up in his bill, carries it over to his money, but pay no attention: "J::law Dr. are playing, and you're walking on air intended mate, and places it between , mu.m do you love me?" My guess is, Sex appears - someone is lying to you. You are her little feet. If the female accepts he will reach into his pocket, pull out describing a sexual fantasy rather him, she picks it up and walks around some change and hand it to you. weekly in the than a real relationship be'cause the nesting area with the male follow­ Count it. That is EXACTLY what you "screwed up· is what makes a rela­ ing her until she finds the perfect spot are worth to him. ·That's real, that's · 'uR-1 - your tionship real. So here you are, living They build their nest over the stone, sexism. in your sexual fantasy while your live­ soon·it Is filled with eggs, and they live Talking about sexism being family problem in's living in his. In my terminology, ·happily ever after (of course, they're foisted off on innocent people: Are you nothing er.asses over from your life to Penguins). This is bonding in the , pregnant, what then? Consider the paperl his, neither of you is touching the animal kingdom and I feel that -until a complex issues involved, keeping in other. When a fantasy gets outside male brings a perfect little stone to mind that George Bush and many

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