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Eve fatigue.


EVE FATIGUE is an affliction that comes over a society that has had all the feminism it can stand. Say, for example, you are shopping by phone and the person taking your order for a shower curtain asks you what color you want.

"You have a choice--" You don't even hear the rest; your mind shuts down because every lurching move a woman makes is called a choice. The nullipara nullipara /nul·lip·a·ra/ (nul-ip´ah-rah) para 0; a woman who has never borne a viable child. See para. nullip´arous

nul·lip·a·ra
n.
A woman who has never given birth.
 of all choices is, of course, abortion, but now feminists are saying that women should be able to choose whether to serve in combat, and rape victims should be allowed to choose whether to let their names be published.

On June 18, during Senate Armed Services Committee The term Armed Services Committee could refer to:
  • U.S. House Committee on Armed Services
  • U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services
 hearings, the chiefs of the four military branches voiced such blunt objections to women in combat that they sounded Pattonesque. The Air Force representative frankly admitted that he considers male gender the premier qualification for a fighter pilot, and calmly justified his views with the first completely guiltless guilt·less  
adj.
Free of guilt; innocent.



guiltless·ly adv.

guilt
 and public utterance to fall from the lips of a white male in two decades: "Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't help it, that's the way I feel."

Another sign that the Pentagon may be moving from the Potomac marshes to Eve Fatigue Flats was a July 1 news story about Captain Linda Bray, America's first war heroine, who liberated a dog kennel during the Panamanian action in 1989. Linda Bray is no longer in the army. She is now a housewife, her sporty look exchanged for frosted hair and long pointed nails painted "Maui Mango." As they say in Gothic novels, What terrible thing happened to Linda Bray?

She was hounded out of the Army.

Writes Scripps Howard reporter Peter Copeland: "When she and her company returned home to Fort Benning Fort Benning, U.S. army post, 189,000 acres (76,500 hectares), W Ga., S of Columbus; est. 1918. One of the largest army posts in the United States, it is the nation's largest infantry training center and the home of the Army Infantry School. , Captain Bray was visited by investigators from the Army's Criminal Investigation Division asking what had happened to the dogs at the kennel. A Panamanian sldier had accused American soldier of killing the dogs several days after the invasion."

No one is more susceptible to Eve Fatigure than former feminist role models. Warning women against careers in the infantry, the five-foot-one, 105-pound Linda Bray recites a cautionary tale A cautionary tale is a traditional story told in folklore, to warn its hearer of a danger.

There are three essential parts to a cautionary tale, though they can be introduced in a large variety of ways.
 worthy of Phyllis Schlafly: "I carried too much weight. I always felt pressure in the military. 'You don't have very much weight in your rucksack. Why don't you carry a little more?' I kept adding more until my hips broke. I can't run, jump. I can't even go grocery shopping without having to sit down because it hurts."

Eve Fatigue replaced the seventhinning stretch on July 5 when Washington's Orioles' baseball channel ran a Children's Defense Fund The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is a national organization that is committed to the social Welfare of children. Founded in 1973, the nonprofit group uses its annual $9 million budget to lobby legislators and to speak out publicly on a broad array of issues on the law, the family, and  public-service ad. It shows a crowd of concerned citizens picketing a white marble government building. Some of the picketers are male, but the camera lingers on careerish women in business suits. One such woman has brought her baby in a carriage, but she gets so immersed in clamoring and petitioning that she leaves the carriage perched precariously at the top of a long marble staircase.

As the voice-over recites statistics on America's soaring rates of infant mortality (hardware) infant mortality - It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large) that the chances of sudden hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical , malnutrition, and child neglect and abuse, the baby carriage starts to roll backward down the steps. The statistics fly faster and faster, and so does the carriage. Finally the politically active mother remembers her child and turns around, but it's too late. As she watches in helpless horror, the bough breaks and down goes baby, cradle, and all.

Running this ad during a baseball game Noun 1. baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League , when the viewership is overwhelmingly male, meets the definition of that ubiquitous act of our times known as "sending a message." Eve Fatigue is "on the table," and feminists are so panicked that Washington Post columnist Judy Mann Judy Mann (born December 24, 1943 in Washington, D.C.) was a correspondent for the Washington Post. She died on 8 July 2005 from breast cancer. Awards
Mann won many awards from institutions including:
  • Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild
 detects that old devil "linkage" between a Betty Friedan Noun 1. Betty Friedan - United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921)
Betty Naomi Friedan, Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan, Friedan
 speech and another news event of the same day.

"Ten minutes after she finished speaking, President Bush nominated Clarence Thomas Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist and has been an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991. He is the second African American to serve on the nation's highest court, after Justice Thurgood Marshall.  to the Supreme Court. Four times, the PResident referred to him as the 'best man's for the job, suggesting that only men were considered. It was one of many ominous signs of what's to come."

Paranoia doesn't get any better than this.

Miss King is the author most recently of Lump It or Leave It.
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Title Annotation:army fatigue and women
Author:King, Florence
Publication:National Review
Date:Nov 18, 1991
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