Dr. Crouse is a brilliant woman - a little known national treasure.
Actually the utopian feminazis Dr. Crouse appropriately skewers are rather mild compared to the gender supreamacist feminazis who are very much around on the university campus here is a good introduction (NOTE NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH). I have tried to censor out all onscenities and apologize of some slipped through. These people routinely use the language that would make a long shoreman blush.
AN EXCERPT FROM
THE FAMILY DEFENSE MANUAL
by
James Roger Brown
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THESOCIOLOGIST@aol.com "The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations--for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right--these institutions are real and they must be destroyed. If they are not, we will be consigned as women to perpetual inferiority and subjugation."-Andrea Dworkin, The Root Cause: Our Blood: Prophecies And Discourse On Sexual Politics, 1975, 1976. (Internet posting.)
Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists are the self-declared enemy of all men and families. The purpose of the Family Defense Manual is to prepare you for the worst possibility. If you are male or a woman who chooses to participate in family life and child rearing, Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists are your worst enemies. Their political ideology has your extermination as one of its goals. Their ideology presumes that all men and any woman voluntarily involved in a marital relationship are genetically inferior to lesbians. If you are inferior, their ideology calls for your extermination. This is one major source of the attack on American families.
The material in this section is taken from Female Supremacist and Lesbian Separatist literature and websites. After reading this section, it should be clear to you that Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists can not be reasoned with. The acts of atrocity they are committing in pursuit of their political ideology, among other undesirable consequences, are killing people through subversion of the criminal justice system and the intentional manipulation of children and adults to commit suicide and acts of violence. This can not be tolerated by a civilized society.
CURRENT WORKING SUMMARY OF FEMALE SUPREMACIST AND LESBIAN SEPARATIST HISTORY
As can best be determined at present, the Female Supremacist's and Lesbian Separatist's leadership and ideology emerged from a series of feminist, lesbian and social work conferences and seminars during the 1973-1975 time period. As did Adolph Hitler, these women concluded the best way to destroy the current social structure and replace it with their own desired reality would be to infiltrate and exploit the powers inherent in state and federal bureaucracies. This insight came from Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists employed in social service and social work programs at the time. Over the following years, more elaborate subversive and supporting organized crime management structures evolved as part of the normal problem-solving process required by any complex project.
Also as with Hitler, Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists developed plans to destroy and eventually exterminate (gendercide) the group they believed responsible for their personal misery -- MEN. Lesbian relationships that cross agencies and professional disciplines are a key coordination tool. This increasingly sophisticated endeavor includes development of private corporations which provide important functions within the organization, including use of information necessary to coordinate the destruction of families and the criminalization of as many men as possible.
All of this being conducted behind the legal wall of secrecy set up around the "child protection system." (When contacted, national and local gay and lesbian organizations indicated they had no information about such groups. Sources inside the gay and lesbian community indicate there is general abhorrence of these extremists, but no one knows what to do about them. This is probably also true for leadership in mental health and social work professional organizations. No one wants to do the necessary housecleaning, because they fear offending allies and damaging their own economic or political interests.)
The result is something unique in human history. A self-appointed group of well educated, intelligent, man-hatred motivated women, occupying positions of power and influence, who believe they will not achieve justice and personal happiness until they succeed in destroying every vestige of all social components of the civilization into which they were born. These women have collectively chosen to pursue the total destruction of all social processes by which civilization is passed from one generation to the next. These women are actively working to achieve this destruction. They are succeeding. Our current political, legal and professional leadership is not competent to understand or deal with the new forms of subversion, terrorism and supporting criminal management structure (especially the organized crime among psychology practitioners, social work practitioners, and in psychological testing) these women have created or exploited to achieve their goal.
The solution to this problem is two-fold: (1) identify these hate motivated female subversives and terrorists so the legal system may be used to remove them from government or professional positions which allow them to adversely affect the lives of others in pursuit of their hate agenda; (2) identify the subversive, terrorist, and criminal operations these women have established to achieve the destruction of our civilization and initiate legal action to shut these operations down.
Holding individual Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists responsible for the consequences of their criminal and subversive actions is reasonable and will avoid yet another witch hunt. Regardless of how you personally feel about lesbians, they have always been a component of the human population. Their existence is a reality. There would be no more justice in persecuting all lesbians for the acts of Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists than there is in Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists trying to exterminate all men because these women can not find happiness. As a practical matter it would be a waste of resources. We need only identify the guilty and see that what they have done can never happen again.
FEMALE SUPREMACIST AND LESBIAN SEPARATIST POLITICAL AGENDAS
Supremacists are dangerous, regardless of the qualifier one places in front of the word. Our nation has the good sense to monitor the activities of supremacists who are likely candidates for converting their right to speak about superiority into executing their supremacist views as policies, which usually translate into executing people or depriving people of their human and civil rights.
Unfortunately for us, our policing mechanisms have missed stealth supremacist and separatist movements hiding among feminists -- Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists. Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists exhibit the same dangerous traits as other supremacists and separatists. These dangerous traits include assertions of biological superiority, a mob mentality at public events, use of intimidation and fear, outright lies, demands for special privileges, claims of being unforgivably wronged, the association of unwarranted interpretations with genuine facts, and the subversion of government and justice.
Feminist ideologist Andrea Dworkin related her experience speaking at a 1977 Lesbian Pride Week event that demonstrates why Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists are dangerous and should be considered a very serious threat:
"Hisses. Women shouting at me: slut, bisexual, she XXXs men. And before I had spoken, I had been trembling, more afraid to speak than I had ever been. And, in a room of 200 sister lesbians, as angry as I have ever been. "Are you a bisexual?" some woman screamed over the pandemonium, the hisses and shouts merging into a raging noise. "I'm a Jew," I answered; then, a pause, "and a lesbian, and a woman." And a coward. Jew was enough. In that room, Jew was what mattered. In that room, to answer the question "Do you still XXX men?" with a No, as I did, was to betray my deepest convictions. All of my life, I have hated the proscribers, those who enforce sexual conformity. In answering, I had given in to the inquisitors, and I felt ashamed. It humiliated me to see myself then: one who resists the enforcers out there with militancy, but gives in without resistance to the enforcers among us. The event was a panel on "Lesbianism as a Personal Politic" that took place in New York City, Lesbian Pride Week 1977. A self-proclaimed lesbian separatist had spoken. Amidst the generally accurate description of male crimes against women came this ideological rot, articulated of late with increasing frequency in feminist circles: women and men are distinct species or races (the words are used interchangeably); men are biologically inferior to women; male violence is a biological inevitability; to eliminate it, one must eliminate the species/race itself (means stated on this particular evening: developing parthenogenesis as a viable reproductive reality); in eliminating the biologically inferior species/race Man, the new Ubermensch Womon (prophetically foreshadowed by the lesbian separatist herself) will have the earthly dominion that is her true biological destiny. We are left to infer that the society of her creation will be good because she is good, biologically good. In the interim, incipient Super Womon will not do anything to "encourage" women to "collaborate" with men--no abortion clinics or battered woman sanctuaries will come from her. After all, she has to conserve her "energy" which must not be dissipated keeping "weaker" women alive through reform measures. The audience applauded the passages on female superiority/male inferiority enthusiastically. This doctrine seemed to be music to their ears. ((Internet posting.) LETTERS FROM A WAR ZONE: Biological Superiority: The Worlds' Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea. Andrea Dworkin, 1977, 1988, 1993.)
"Recently, more and more feminists have been advocating social, spiritual, and mythological models that are female-supremacist and/or matriarchal . . . . But the price we pay is that we become carriers of the disease we must cure. It is no accident that in the ancient matriarchies men were castrated, sacrificially slaughtered, and excluded from public forms of power; nor is it an accident that some Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists now believe men to be a distinct and inferior species or race. Wherever power is accessible or bodily integrity honored on the basis of biological attribute, systematized cruelty permeates the society and murder and mutilation contaminate it. We will not be different . . . . It is shamefully easy for us to enjoy our own fantasies of biological omnipotence while despising men for enjoying the reality of theirs. And it is dangerous--because genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. We, who have been devastated by the concrete consequences of this idea, still want to put our faith in it. Nothing offers more proof--sad, irrefutable proof--that we are more like men than either they or we care to believe." ((Internet posting.) LETTERS FROM A WAR ZONE: Biological Superiority: The Worlds' Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea. Andrea Dworkin, 1977, 1988, 1993.)
As you just read, Female Supremism is based on assertions that: (1) lesbians are biologically superior to all men (Do the male homosexuals who march with these women during Gay Pride Week know this?); (2) all men are biologically inferior to all women; (3) women who have anything to do with men are inferior; (4) the male "race" or "species" must be exterminated. The following citations demonstrate that the "biological superiority of women" assertion is an essential, consistent component of the Female Supremacist and Lesbian Separatist movement and literature. As with all such movements, it is necessary to justify killing your inferior "enemy" or deprive him (literally in this case) of human and civil rights. By becoming part of mainstream literature, Female Supremacist and Lesbian Separatist views become accepted as "fact" and make their anti-male agendas seem more reasonable to people, including men, who would otherwise not support depriving anyone of human or civil rights.
"MALE: ... represents a variant of or deviation from the category of female. 'The first males were mutants...the male sex represents a degeneration and deformity of the female.'
MAN: ... an obsolete life form...an ordinary creature who needs to be watched ... a contradictory baby-man ...
TESTOSTERONE POISONING: ... 'Until now it has been though[t] that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it. But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from "testosterone poisoning."' ((Internet posting.) Collected Quotes from Feminist Man-Haters: A Feminist Dictionary, ed. Kramarae and Treichler, Pandora Press, 1985)
"The newest variations on this distressingly ancient theme center on hormones and DNA: men are biologically aggressive; their fetal brains were awash in androgen; their DNA, in order to perpetuate itself, hurls them into murder and rape." ((Internet posting.) Letters from a War Zone, Andrea Dworkin, p. 114.)
Germaine Greer when asked: "You [Greer] were once quoted as saying your idea of the ideal man is a woman with a dick. Are you still that way inclined?" Dr Greer (denying that she said it): "I have a great deal of difficulty with the idea of the ideal man. As far as I'm concerned, men are the product of a damaged gene. They pretend to be normal but what they're doing sitting there with benign smiles on their faces is they're manufacturing sperm. They do it all the time. They never stop. I mean, we women are more reasonable. We pop one follicle every 28 days, whereas they are producing 400 million sperm for each ejaculation, most of which don't take place anywhere near an ovum. I don't know that the ecosphere can tolerate it." ((Internet posting.) Collected Quotes from Feminist Man-Haters: Germaine Greer, at a Hilton Hotel literary lunch, promoting her book The Change-- Women, Aging and the Menopause. From a news report dated 14/11/91.)
"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it." ((Internet posting.) Collected Quotes from Feminist Man-Haters: Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan)
The irony and duplicity in Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists asserting biological superiority is that their own literature claims women have been victims of the same folly. One statement clearly describes the destructive consequences of such extremist distortions:
"'The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities,' said Aristotle; 'we should regard the female nature as afflicted with a natural defectiveness.' And St. Thomas for his part pronounced woman to be 'an imperfect man,' all 'incidental' being [sic] . . . .This diseased view of woman as the negative of man, "female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities," infects the whole of culture. It is the cancer in the gut of every political and economic system, of every social institution. It is the rot which spoils all human relationships, infests all human psychological reality, and destroys the very fiber of human identity.' ((Internet posting.) THE ROOT CAUSE: OUR BLOOD: PROPHECIES AND DISCOURSES ON SEXUAL POLITICS, Andrea Dworkin, 1975, 1976.)
By defining women who attempt to deal equally with the "enemy" [men] as also defective, it becomes easier to justify subverting or otherwise maliciously using other feminist organizations and movements. Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists hide their destructive agendas behind feminists genuinely pursuing equal rights and the child protection movement. What better way to destroy "phallic identity" than to seize male children under the guise of "child protection" and turn them over to Female Supremacist or Lesbian Separatist cohorts in social service agencies and allied "mental health" facilities who will "educate" these "predestined violent rapists" as to their true nature.
"Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman." ((Internet posting.) Liberty, Andrea Dworkin, p. 58.)
"All men are rapists and that's all they are," ((Internet posting.) People, Marilyn French, February 20, 1983.
"In a patriarchal society all heterosexual intercourse is rape...." ((Internet posting.) Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies, Catherine MacKinnon p. 129.)
"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire." (Collected Quotes from Feminist Man-Haters ((Internet posting.) From Robin Morgan, "Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape" in "Going too Far," 1974.)
Believing that all men are rapists justifies any action. Since every man has, or will, commit rape, they deserve whatever happens to them, including being falsely accused.
"Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometime gain from the experience." ((Internet posting.) Catherine Comins, Vassar College Assistant Dean of Student Life in Time, June 3, 1991, p. 52.)
Once the "fact" that all men are rapists and biologically inferior to women is "established" they can justifiably be subjected to violence and extermination.
"I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them." ((Internet posting.) Collected Quotes from Feminist Man-Haters: Quotes from Robin Morgan (editor of Ms magazine))
"I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero-sexual [sic] men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary-vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do." ((Internet posting.) Collected Quotes from Feminist Man-Haters: Robin Morgan)
"The oppressors are indeed XXXED UP by being masters (racism hurts whites, sexual stereotypes are harmful to men) but those masters are not OPPRESSED. Any master has the alternative of divesting himself of sexism or racism--the oppressed have no alternative--for they have no power--but to fight. In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men--but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily. Sexism is NOT the fault of women--kill your fathers, not your mothers." ((Internet posting.) Collected Quotes from Feminist Man-Haters: Robin Morgan)
"And one last great myth: 'Violence never solves anything.' In the grand philosophical sense those words may ring true. Violence is like money: it can't make you happy, save your soul, make you a better person--but it certainly can solve things. When the winners exterminate the losers, historical conflicts are permanently solved. More women than we know have probably got rid of abusive husbands . . . . Violence definitely solves some things. A dead rapist will not commit any more rapes: he's been solved. [NOTE: Remember the assertion "All men are rapists."] Violence is a seductive solution because it seems easy and quick; . . . . Violence may be a tool and a tactic that feminists should use; certainly we ought to be putting some serious thought into it. If we refuse it, it should not be because it offends against our romantic notion of morally superior Womanhood, but for some better and more thoughtful reason. If we accept it, we had better figure out how to avoid becoming corrupted by it." ((Internet posting.) "Justice Is A Woman With A Sword," D.A. Clarke. Always Causing Legal Unrest, 1991)
"This violence is always accompanied by cultural assault -- propaganda disguised as principle or knowledge. The purity of the 'Aryan' or Caucasian race is a favorite principle. Genetic inferiority is a favorite field of knowledge. Libraries are full of erudite texts that prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Jews, the Irish, Mexicans, blacks, homosexuals, women are slime. These eloquent and resourceful proofs are classified as psychology, theology, economics, philosophy, history, sociology, the so-called science of biology. Sometimes, often, they are made into stories or poems and called art. Degradation is dignified as biological, economic, or historical necessity; or as the logical consequence of the repulsive traits or inherent limitations of the ones degraded. Out on the streets, the propaganda takes a more vulgar form. Signs read "Whites Only" or "Jews and Dogs Not Allowed." Hisses of kike, nigger, queer, and pussy fill the air. In this propaganda, the victim is marked. In this propaganda, the victim is targeted. This propaganda is the glove that covers the fist in any reign of terror. This propaganda does not only sanction violence against the designated group; it incites it. This propaganda does not only threaten assault; it promises it. ((Internet posting.) LETTERS FROM A WAR ZONE: Part IV THE NEW TERRORISM, Andrea Dworkin, 1976-1989.)
"Because the women's movement has not confronted its own shadow, feminism is now exhibiting many of the characteristics which it associates with "the patriarchy," such as shaming, blaming, manipulating and attempting to control men in order to feel empowered in relationship to them," ((Internet posting.) Reclaiming the Dark Feminine: The Price of Desire, Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., p. 121.)
Falsely accusing a man of rape, child abuse, or any other crime, is an act of violence. Removing a male child from parental custody to ensure that he receives proper "treatment" for the "inevitable expression of his true violent rapist nature" is an act of violence. Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists, no doubt, must find it amusing that they have succeeded in getting male legislators, male prosecutors and male law enforcement officers to complete their violent acts for them, by the simple expedient of lying to them.
"As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic nonidentity in women--that is, to destroy the polar realities of men and women as we now know them so that this division of human flesh into two camps--one an armed camp and the other a concentration camp--is no longer possible. Phallic identity is real and it must be destroyed. ((Internet posting.) THE ROOT CAUSE: OUR BLOOD: PROPHECIES AND DISCOURSES ON SEXUAL POLITICS, Andrea Dworkin, 1975, 1976.)
Women, of course, are depicted as innocent creatures incapable of violence.
"Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive...women didn't go to Vietnam and blow up things up. They are not Rambo." ((Internet posting.) Jodie Foster in The New York Times Magazine, January 6, 1991, p. 19.)
Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists and all women, being powerless eternal victims, are thereby entitled to use any access to power afforded by their work place to save women and destroy men.
"If the classroom situation is very heteropatriarchal - a large beginning class of 50 to 60 students say, with few feminist students - I am likely to define my task as largely one of recruitment...of persuading students that women are oppressed." ((Internet posting.) Professor Joyce Trebilcot of Washington University cited in Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women, p. 92 by Christina Hoff Summers.)
What do Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists working behind the legislated veils of secrecy in child protection agencies, mental health professions, law enforcement and the judicial system view their "task" to be and what have they done to achieve their perceived "task"? Answering this question is especially important in light of the stated goals of Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists.
"The Feminists -v- The Marriage License Bureau of the State of New York...All the discriminatory practices against women are patterned and rationalized by this slavery-like practice. We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage." ((Internet posting.) Sisterhood Is Powerful, Morgan (ed), 1970 p. 537.)
"The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process . . . . Families will be finally destroyed only when a revolutionary social and economic organization permits people's needs for love and security to be met in ways that do not impose divisions of labor, or any external roles, at all." ((Internet posting.) Source:
rodvan@nwlink.com (Rod Van Mechelen): Functions of the Family, Linda Gordon, WOMEN: A Journal of Liberation, Fall, 1969.)
"In my view, those of us who are women inside this system of reality will never be free until the delusion of sexual polarity is destroyed and until the system of reality based on it is eradicated entirely from human society and from human memory. This is the notion of cultural transformation at the heart of feminism. This is the revolutionary possibility inherent in the feminist struggle . . . . As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic nonidentity in women . . . . Phallic identity is real and it must be destroyed. Female masochism is real and it must be destroyed. The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations--for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right--these institutions are real and they must be destroyed. If they are not, we will be consigned as women to perpetual inferiority and subjugation." ((Internet posting.) THE ROOT CAUSE: OUR BLOOD: PROPHECIES AND DISCOURSES ON SEXUAL POLITICS, Andrea Dworkin, 1975, 1976.)
"Only when manhood is dead--and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it--only then will we know what it is to be free." ((Internet posting.) THE ROOT CAUSE: OUR BLOOD: PROPHECIES AND DISCOURSES ON SEXUAL POLITICS, Andrea Dworkin, 1975, 1976.)
Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists exist. Their stated goals are to (1) "destroy marriage"; (2) destroy "the nuclear family"; (3) destroy the "delusion of sexual polarity"; (4) "destroy phallic identity in men"; (5) destroy "The cultural institutions . . . . law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right"; (6) "eliminate the species/race itself [men]" because "male violence is a biological inevitability"; (7) eliminate sexual intercourse and replace it with "parthenogenesis" [cloning or genetic engineering]. To achieve these goals Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists can and do justify any act, including falsely accusing men of rape and child abuse, subverting legislative and judicial processes, and gaining access to power, by any and all means, for the purpose of depriving men of their human and constitutional rights, freedom, and ultimately to deprive them of their lives, if possible.
It is time to stop pretending these criminal extremists do not exist, especially for feminists and members of the gay and lesbian community genuinely interested in equal rights, since their ultimate extermination is also on the Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatist agendas. It is time to start turning over the rocks Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists hide under, especially those operating under color of government authority in government agencies, law enforcement, and the judicial system. It is time to determine what Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists have succeeded in sabotaging and how much damage they have done.
Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists who have gone beyond exercising free speech and are attempting to destroy men in every way possible at every opportunity and to destroy, not only our government, but our entire civilization through subversion, belong in prison with terrorists who blow up buildings, racists who drag people to death, and individuals who tie homosexuals to fence posts and beat them to death. Female Supremacists and Lesbian Separatists who violate the human and civil rights of men and male children out of hate are no different.
Wow, impressive. And true. BUMP!
Here is an example of REAL feminism, alive and well:
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20031004_177.html _________________________________________________
Twelve to Be Inducted Into Women's Hall of Fame
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. Oct. 4 Mildred Robbins Leet is an unusual philanthropist. She's not wealthy. And for 25 years, she's given away just $50 at a time.
But her "micro grants" have helped transform tens of thousands of lives around the globe. They buy fishing rods or frying pans, a farm animal, a sewing machine or a barrel of seeds, enabling "the poorest of the poor" to launch their own businesses.
Leet is among 12 women who were to be inducted Saturday into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
The hall was established in 1969 in this village in western New York where the first known women's rights convention was held in 1848. Women won the right to vote in 1920.
This year's honor roll includes Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across the English Channel; Sheila Widnall, the first woman to command the U.S. Air Force; and Stephanie Kwolek, who formulated a chemical solution in 1965 that led to Kevlar, the stronger-than-steel fiber used in bulletproof vests.
Leet tries to find aspiring entrepreneurs among those least likely to have startup capital. They live in urban slums in India, remote villages in west Africa, a blighted island in the Caribbean.
And they make good use of their good fortune most enterprises are still running years later.
"Every once in a while you meet somebody and they say, `$50? Are you kidding?'" Leet said. "And you say, `Don't worry, there are people to whom $50 will make the difference.'
"For some, they never had $50 before in one lump sum. For others, it's psychological 'God, they believe in us!' That's really it you just have to trust in people."
Leet, an 81-year-old New Yorker, started Trickle Up Inc., a volunteer, nonprofit program, with her husband Glen in 1979 after decades working for anti-poverty, social justice and community development groups.
Taking $1,000 from their savings, the couple linked up with an aid worker and created 10 businesses in Dominica, a struggling Caribbean island.
Each entrepreneur who drew up a simple but promising "business plan" got $50. One group of women formed a thriving banana-chip cooperative.
If a business is still going a few months later, the owner can file a one-page "business report" to apply for another $50 check. After that, "they're off on their own," said Leet, who locates people via churches, women's groups or aid agencies.
Funded by donations, Trickle Up has spawned an estimated 115,000 businesses and disbursed more than $3 million, Leet said. There is one exception to the $50 limit: in the United States, grants can rise to $700.
"You try in different ways to reach people to help themselves by using skills they already have and they do," she said. "It's not a giveaway. It's almost like a scholarship you learn by doing."
Leet said the "business report" provides a measure of control "after a while you can spot a phony really easily." And surveys have found some 70 percent of businesses were still operating several years later, she said.
Most of the ventures are modest basket-weaving in Ghana, quilting in El Salvador, a home bakery in Bolivia. One woman in Cameroon started out by selling chicken eggs, soon made enough money to buy a bicycle and later opened a small variety store.
The program got started in the apartment of Leet and her husband, who died in 1998. It now employs 14 people.
"We have far more demand that we can meet," Leet said. "But you keep going. I never thought we would go this far."
There is one more element of "second wave feminism" that is becoming more and more obvious, and to my knowledge only Christina Hoff-Summers is making much issue about it. That is the war on boys. It affects women quite personally in a way most college-age women cannot fathom... some day you're quite likely to have a son.