Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!ora!ora!daemon From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: The Feminist Majority Message-ID: <1990Jul12.044205.7978@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 12 Jul 90 04:42:05 GMT References: <9007091850.AA19989@houston.cs.columbia.edu> Sender: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 28 Approved: ambar@ora.com In article <9007091850.AA19989@houston.cs.columbia.edu> travis@houston.cs.columbia.EDU (Travis Lee Winfrey) writes: >Here are a few random thoughts on these groups. >> 2) NOW >> 3) NARAL >Both of these seem relatively powerful in terms of making politicians jump, >and fighting the appropriate court battles. I'm undecided about the >effectiveness or usefulness of pushing for the ERA again, which I think NOW >President Molly Yard wants to do again, primarily because their numbers >doubled in the 70's ERA battle. I sincerely hope that if the ERA is reintroduced, NOW a) doesn't sponser it and b) doesn't comment on it. If they had been able to keep their mouths shut and not alienated the entire center and right of the electorate last time around, we moderates who worked so hard for the ERA would not have seen all our work going down the toilet. Is there any indication that any of the current NOW leadership display at least that minimal amount of common sense? NOW is the poison pill of the ERA. Kent, the man from xanth. -- You probably didn't notice, but during the past year, the moon slipped about one and a half inches farther from the earth -- Joel Bloch, "Stardate", NPR