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In article <3gghdm$3ps@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>,
Norman Lehfeldt <NormL@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>In <Jym.28Jan1995.2323@naughty-peahen> Jym Dyer 
><jym@remarque.berkeley.edu> writes: 
>>broadcasting the truth.
>
><Material SNIPPED by stupidity filter>

>>=v= Like I said, I haven't heard the actual broadcast.
>>Perhaps Krasny was just pulling his usual "Yada yada yada;
>>how do you respond to that?" routine.  Perhaps there's a
>>way I could get a tape of the show from KQED?
>>    <_Jym_>
>>
>Oh, puhleez!
>
>I was (as usual) on the other side of the glass during that show. 
>Krasny, quite properly, gave Bari a chance to refute the often heard 
>charges. The rest of the show was devoted to Bari's book and her view of 
>the situation in the N. Cal. logging dispute. She was quite effective, 
>although she would benefit from getting a little coaching to take some 
>of the stridency from her voice.

I may be *completely* off base here, but I'm gonna go for it anyway.

I have yet to hear a man be accused of being "strident".  Often the
tone and tenor which is denounced in women's delivery as being "strident"
is hailed in men as "assertive", "no-nonsense", etc... (in a word,
*manly*).  So whenever I hear that a woman was too "strident", little
red flags go up in my mind.

I didn't hear the broadcast.  Perhaps if Judi Bari had been Jimmy Bari
*"he"* would have been accused of stridency as well.  If so, my criticism
is misplaced.  But I urge the poster, and all readers, to consider
whether the delivery would have been received and perceived in the
same way if the voice were baritone instead of alto or soprano.

From what I hear of Judi, she's strong, courageous, and speaks her
commitments without apology or hesitation.  If this be stridency,
then let us have more of it.

Regards,

Joel

>Tapes of Forum are available, I believe.
>KQED-FM's phone #: (415) 553-2129

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"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is:  
I only know that I am called a feminist whenever I express sentiments 
that differentiate me from a doormat." -Rebecca West, 1913