Feminist urges women
not to fear differences
By Mary Lichtenwalner
Of the Emerald
‘‘Feminists are
rewriting the world,”
Prof. Marilyn Frye said
Tuesday night as she at
tempted to explain
feminist theory in Room
167 EMU.
The lecture, ‘‘The
Meanings of Difference,”
was part of The Center for
the Study of Women in
Society’s winter speaker
series. Frye is a visiting
philosophy professor
from Michigan State
University.
The idea of rewriting
evolved from a group of
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had “heads full of
knowledge and ideas of
how people tick and economies tick,” Frye said. Those
women began to question that “standard knowledge”
however, and went to work to put together a project based on
feminist theory.
But those world-writers are having difficulties, she added.
The problem lies mainly in limitations.
“A lot of the world-writing women are doing their work on
company time,” she said, “and those not working don’t get
much time at the word processor.”
Many of the women's opinions who world-write at work
are discouraged by their employers, Frye said. To keep their
jobs, those women edit their thoughts accordingly.
“The problem is that there are too few voices, too many
world-writers close to the company” and too few who can
communicate clearly their own thoughts as well as those of
others, she said.
“For a long time women weren’t aware of these problems.
They were just writing the book ‘The World According to
Women,' putting women in the picture. Before that there was
only Marie Antoinette and Eve,” she said with a laugh.
Frye stressed the point that “nobody fits anybody’s pic
ture,” adding that generalizations are a problem when obser
ving society.
An option to feminists is to give up world-writing and
“radically rethink and revise what we need to do when we
think of the concept of woman.” she said. “Nobody is simply
a woman — that’s an overgeneralization.”
Recognizing differences in humans is the key, she said.
Frye referred to author Audre Lord’s book “Sister Outsider”
to support her point.
“Lord puts the concept of difference at the center of racism,
sexism and homophobia,” Frye said. “She says to her au
dience that they must stop fearing difference.”
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Group claims it drove spikes
to protect old-growth timber
By Cynthia Whitfield
Of the Emerald
Another Willamette National Forest area slated
for a timber sale has been spiked with nails to
discourage U.S. Forest Service officials from go
ing ahead with plans for a spring clear-cutting,
according to a group claiming responsibility for
the spiking.
The group made the claim in letters received
Monday by The Register-Guard and the Albany
Democrat-Herald.
The Forest Service plans to investigate the area,
but “there’s still too much snow up there,” said
Jerry Mason, public affairs officer for the
Willamette National Forest.
“We’re not even sure if this is a hoax or reali
ty,” he said. “If the action was done recently, the
group must have had a unique way of getting over
the snow.”
The group said 50 pounds of 20-penny nails
were driven into standing timber in the Pyramid
Creek area of the Middle Santiam Cathedral
Forest, an area rejected by Congress for the
Wilderness Bill, and the site of about six
demonstrations organized by the Cathedral Forest
Action Group this summer.
The protesters attempted to block logging
r
trucks from leaving the Middle Santiam. More
than 40 demonstrators were arrested.
But members of the environmental group say
tree spiking, capable of causing physical harm
when a logger’s saw meets the hidden nail, is go
ing too far.
“I’m angry about it,’’ said group member Mary
Beth Nearing. “We believe in non-violent direct
action, communication, and finding new solu
tions. We’ve worked hard on our relationship
with the Forest Service and the loggers.
Something like this might compromise the pro
gress we’ve made so far.”
“I know the Cathedral Forest Action Group
lives and breathes non-violence,” said Doug
Norlen, Survival Center director, who says he has
often worked with the group. “I do not support
tree spiking, but what the Forest Service is doing
is a crime in itself.”
Norlen says the Middle Santiam area is the se
cond largest standing biomass (volume of concen
trated plants, trees and vines) in the world.
But Mike Morris, coordinator for National En
vironmental Policy, said this claim has never
been documented.
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