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From: cat@tommif.UUCP (Catherine Mikkelsen)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: MADONNA
Message-ID: <120@tommif.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 01:02:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 01:02:41 1985
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Summary: Lauper and NOW

In article <418@olivee.UUCP>, gnome@olivee.UUCP (Gary Traveis) writes:
> 
> Since this is net.women, ask NOW (National Org. of Women)
> which they'd prefer as a role model, Madonna or Lauper.
> 
> Gary

I don't know about NOW (they seem much too involved nowadays in issues
like nuclear energy to deal with *yawn* female role models (:-)) but
I almost cancelled my (tenuous) subscription to MS magazine after Lauper
was featured -- next to some ten-year-old kid -- as one of America's
*best* (or one of those labels) women.  Oy vey!!  I mean, Geez.  If I
want to select some pop singer as a hot sh*t feminist figure, howzabout
Martha Johnson (muffins fame)?  Or Aretha??  Or even Tina Turner?!

My personal favorite is Joplin, but she's not exactly current...


AND BEFORE I get told to move this discussion to net.music 
(aaargh!!  not Kate Bush!!!), back to the original topic:

How many women out there are happy with:

1)	NOW's current policies.
2)	MS Magazine.

I'm about ready to send my NOW dues money straight to Planned Parenthood,
cancel my MS subscription, and stick to Car and Driver and the ACLU news.

Suggestions??

Catherine Mikkelsen
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