Practical Radical Feminism
Jul 25th, 2007 by womensspace
In July 2007, I began a thread about “Practical Radical Feminism,” i.e., what radical feminist women have done and do for women. That thread is here. I promised to make it a permanent page with a tab at the top, so here it is! Comments are open. As we remember what we’ve done to help women or girls, and how we’ve been helped by women and girls, we can add to the list.
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I’ve been sued five times, and physically threatened after deciding to after former attorney Ron Lais
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/05/21/SC76910.DTL&hw=ronald+lais&sn=001&sc=1000
Identified him at http://www.FamilyLawCourts.com/naming_names.html as the con artist he is. Naturally Lais sued figuring his bullying tactics which worked so well in the past, (he’d sue individuals, then for good measure contact their Internet service providers and threaten to add them to the suit unless they unplugged the site. Presto! Ignoring our First Amendment, they would bail.)
But since I already knew his tactics, found a local guy who didn’t bully well, and an attorney who is a former marine, who has zero tolerance for bully behavior…and we pressed on, neutralizing Lais from the jump.
In court Lais said I cost him over $100,000.00 (My thought was, “Great. The site’s working.) The State Bar lobbied for me to call the sheriff as their efforts to curb him, weren’t working. I did and got a detective interested, explaining he was using meta-tags touting himself as an attorney. Well. The very next day an Orange County DA called and asked me to explain how Lais was duping people on the Internet using meta-tags. I did and he got a search warrant. Lais was arrested but spent about thirty seconds in jail. I continued to route Lais’ victims as they found the site, to the DA. However around year three I began referring to it as the “alleged prosecution” and the DA quit talking to me.
An interested columnist wrote about sixteen column on the case and gave me my own rating. Am the last “R” entry.
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/columns/article_939203.php
The conclusion - but not the end.
http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/08/01/sections/local/local_columns/article_618190.php
(no attorney would believe this part - so I was happy it’s documented)
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/columns/article_682538.php
The sentence, but not the end; and,
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/columns/article_690336.php
Lais trying to litigate - from prison (See Paragraph Seven)
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/columns/article_1244624.php
Also covering a national epidemic that’ll never see daylight on Oprah.
Although normally I work in media for attorneys, in 2001, I created http://www.FamilyLawCourts.com to cover family court…never dreaming I’d stumble over fake attorneys and therapists plying their trade before judges who knew but didn’t care.
However, almost immediately I began hearing from mothers desperate for help in coping with parental alienation. Mothers who had written to Oprah to do a show on what has become a national epidemic (I also hear from women and men in England, New Zealand - it’s a global problem).
But American women who poured their hearts out to Oprah, and who continue to do so, write me asking why Oprah wouldn’t do a show on the subject.
Which surprised me. After all, it seems obvious to me parental alienation will never be an Oprah show topic. Despite retiring her mother, viewers never hear Oprah speak fondly of her mother. But even casual viewers know Oprah routinely praises Maya Aneglou as her spiritual mother.
So while reporters claim to always be looking for news…no one is interested in writing about a national epidemic tearing the country apart, that’ll never see daylight on Oprah.
Should anyone want to research the topic, probably the best book on the subject is “Children Held Hostage.” However in that it’s distributed by the ABA instead of Barnes and Noble; not many know of its existence.
I agree with you Bonnie, we will NEVER watch a show on Oprah about the destruction of the next generation (our children) being caused by Parental Alienation and a bunch of other “political” B.S.
Maybe they’ll catch on when it’s to late!
Louise
For lots of reasons, I would not expect Oprah to help with woman-empowering education about systemic parental alienation. Oprah’s vastly talented and attractive, and financially wealthy, but genuinely liberated for the cause of women as women? She might, however, if ratings and popular sentiment seemed to warrant, cover the topic.
To use a three-strikes baseball analogy: (1) As her wealth increased, she spun off Dr. Phil’s psycho-babble empire (decidedly un-feminist, if you believe the personal is political); (2) “O” magazine, aside from synchronicity of its title with infamous written pornography idealizing female masochism (”The Story of O”), carries ads for psych-drugging women; and (3) as picture worth a thousand words, “O” herself posed like a fashion-model icon in destabilizing spike heels on the cover of her international magazine.
Oprah’s like half a slice of bread to women starving for sustenance. I envy her audience, but not her message.
Practical Radical Feminism, let’s get back on that subject.
I haven’t heard one media spin on the polls account for me or the countless practical radical feminists I know who are DISGUSTED with the Obama campaign and wholeheartedly backing Hillary. It’s not revenge voting. It’s not because we are white or female or past 40 or, needless to say, racists as any reason we’re fed up with Obama. It’s because we’ve dedicated our adult lives to equal rights for all and we’ve gotten a gigantic slap in the face from Obama (who threw us down as a “typical white person” among other ways), his ghastly spiritual leader/mentor Rev. Wright, his clearly anti-other-people wife, and his countless operatives who appeal to the understood anti-female feelings so many men have about Hillary.
In the polls, by far more Americans say America is ready for a black president than a woman president. By double digits, fewer Americans think Americans are ready for a woman president. Yet we’re not allowed to talk about sexism. Yet Obama’s operatives at EVERY turn call ANY comment racist. If Bill Clinton is a racist, then every last person in the world is a hopeless racist.
The sexist media bias is like nothing ever seen in this country. Obama feeds it. I find him and his campaign disgusting for civil rights-minded women!