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Are Women Human? by Catharine MacKinnon in Herizons

 
In acknowledgement of the fact that women are actually included in the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, but our mostly male media and our President forgot to notice, Catharine MacKinnon's ovarian Are Women Human? seems painfully appropriate.

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An excerpt:

It takes a lot of imagination -- and a determinedly blinkered focus on exceptions at the privileged margins -- to envision a real woman in the Universal Declaration's majestic guarantees of what 'everyone is entitled to'. After fifty years, just what part of 'everyone' doesn't mean us?

The ringing language in Article 1 encourages us to 'act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.' Must we be men before its spirit includes us? Lest this be seen as too literal, if we were all enjoined to 'act towards one another in a spirit of sisterhood,' would men know it meant them, too? . . . And now that 'everyone' has had a right 'to take part in the government of his country' for the past fifty years, why are most governments still run by men? Are women silent in the halls of state because we do not have a human voice?

When will women be human? When?