Page 6 . TI-GRACE ATKINSON No men! no sex! no mar riage! Ti - Grace Atkinson has long passed the age of denouncing mar riage, motherhood, and is now' writ ing elegant analyses of the need to give up sex and love, because both, in her view are fundamentally means of enslaving females. Ti - Grace is questioning the validi ty of sex and love ,as central pillars in women’s life. “I have almost no personal life left,” she says, “many women are not yet ready to give that up, but when they see that they’re not so much giving up Something, but getting rid of it, they Will.” Miss Atkinson, daughter of an up per class, Louisiana family, tall, el egantly feline, age 31 years is spokes woman for the militant faction of the feminists. She spoke at Capitol Campus Oct. 19, 1970 at 8 p.m. in the school audi tororium. She was married at 17, with the encouragement of both parents, who hoped domesticity would cool her re belious spirit, but the marriage de solved after 5 years and two children. She presently lives in New York where she is completing her doctor ate in political philosophy at Colum bia University. Ti - Grace was, as of 2 years ago, a member of N.0.W., but that old cause seems to have flared into a new, desperate and angry struggle for her in the radical movement for Women’s Rights. In her speech and informal dis cussion she expressed her defiance of the definition of women. We are just in the labor rhetoric, but almost al ways defined and limited by the sex ual role, rather than open to the un bounded human possibilities held out to most men. . Women become sec retaries, teachers, a nurse, a lawyer, an occasional doctor or head of any thing, whether she makes it in a factory or in one of the elite profes sions she earns less than men and no matter how superior she may be, women by definition are less superior than men. Comment “Bull Shit”! When a women has children, she is chained to their needs for most of her vigor and youth. She is John’s wife or Suzies’ mother, and beyond that she has no other identity. The other alternative of no identi ty is the dumb, sexy or shrill female as advertised on TV and magazine the George Lewis Shop 2 North Union Street TOBACCO MAGAZINES NEWSPAPERS GREETING CARDS PAPERBACK BOOKS CALL 944-9992 MEN OPPRESS WOMEN! by Arm Ostroski THE CAPITOLIST ads. Is that what’s called a woman? Bull Shit! Ti - Grace wants women on ah equal plain; her biggest concern, however is putting forward a clear program, (i.e. a skeleton of the so very many areas to be developed in the movement. She says, it’s easy to mobilize women, but once we mo bilize we don’t want to lead them over a cliff.” Ti - Grace is not interested in people likirig her; “this is political not personal.” She doesn’t hate all men, just most. “A few men are standing up for us now.” They are the ones not as cowardly or shallow to be so obvious ly threatened to retort with a laugh or babble some disbelief in the libera tionists seriousness. Ti-Grace will no longer be seen with members of the oposite sex, except as a matter of “class confrontation” —a T.V. debate, or a public platform. She says that total separation works wonders since it desolves am bivalence and it is ambivalence that fosters rage. “It’s impossible to be a feminist and be married.” Marriage is sup presive to women; it’s unpaid labor. Women become a subservient pri soner. The institution of marriage said Ti - Grace, is a contradiction to the ideals of the movement. To sit down and agree to all of the feminists beliefs and plans and then go home to a husband or boy friend is both humiliating and tragic in their view. It’s like being in love with the en emy. All those in the movement light their own cigarettes and open their own doors. “Chivalry is a cheap price to pay for power.” The small masculine niceties now appear to lib er at ional ist as an extension of a stif ling tradition that over protect women and keep them in their “place.” Ti - Grace, as well as other feminists will go to all extremes in their plight for women’s rights and to prove their seriousness. Besides having coverage on T.V. and magazines they have both a radio station W.8.A.1., New York and a women’s Lib Magazine sponsored by the movement. No extreme is too far for the ra dicals for feminists even violence and sadly enough the ultimate death. PEACE POEM Anonymous As things are, and not as we are, Seeing for seeing the being that is. To go one foot before the other, And not behind the barricades Of mind, and other minds. To make distinctions, and know A oneness. To flow as water, Yet cut your own path, for Yieldings the way, by which You rarely need stop. To build Your scheme of things, yet go Into others, to change with Change, not bracing the old, Moving through the eviclades of thought, In boundless patterns never taught. Mimeo Machine Precautions by Leroy Levan Recent questions concerning the use of the Gestetner mimeograph machine have prompted me to set forth a series of guidelines for the use of this machine. The machine is jointly available to the Office of Student Affairs and to students of Capitol Campusv Through the SGA. it is available to either in dividual students or chartered'stu dent organizations, subject to the fol lowing guidelines: 1. Anyone wishing to have mate rial duplicated should have it de livered to the Student Affairs Of fice at least 48 hours prior to the time needed. 2. 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