Tag Archives: Day without Women

Women Get Act Together in Macholand

By RICARDO CASTILLO At a still-short distance, the two days of woman power demonstrations witnessed last weekend are difficult to define. What was it? A protest? A demand for being accepted as women, without the branding of sex objects Mexican machos tag them with? To put a stop to sex/requesting pickup lines like “mooa mooa mamacita” macho males constantly harass

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Mexico News Roundup

By RICARDO CASTILLO A Divided Women’s Movement On the eve of Mexico’s March 9 feminist work stoppage by all the women who want to participate, the cadre of invisible “collectives” have been joined by an apparent “fifth column,” the anti-abortionists, who now claim that this movement “underrates” women. (In military terminology, a fifth column is an infiltration of enemy troops

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