WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU Write usl Please send typewritten, double-spaced letters to: VOICE MALE, MRC, 236 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 or FAX us at (413) 253-4801, E-mail: mrc@valinet.com; include address and phone. Letters may be edited for clarity and length.Deadline for the Summer 2000 Issue is May 5, 2000.
Thanks, Guys Men of the MRC, thanks for all your courage, dedication, and hard work towards eliminating violence and increasing understanding and peace. Jonathan Crawly Gayle Olson Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Chanukah Gelt Dear MRC , We decided to give part of our Chanukah charity money to you . Thank you for trying to help this be a safer world. Sophie, Misha, and Jonah Herscu Amherst, Mass.
"Boy Crazy!" Cards Are Crazy "Boy Crazy!" trading cards, aimed at girls 10 and up, are dangerous, and we at Dads and Daughters call on the manufacturer, Decipher, Inc., to drop the product! Consisting of trading cards with photos and detailed personal information about 363 real "boys," the profiles are of young "boys" 12 to 22 who are invited to shopping malls for the chance to appear on a card. A game, web site and web store are based on the cards. The cards objectify boys, reinforce the
idea that the primary thing for girlsremember we're-talking age 10-is to snag a guy, and encourages girls' competitions for boys. Perhaps most disturbing is the way "Boy Crazy!" normalizes "romantic" relationships between 22 year old men and preteen girls, behavior that, in responsible circles, is called sexual abuse and/or rape. Boy Crazycom invites girls to "moderated chats from the Boy Crazy! trading card game, post messages to other members on the boycrazycom bulletin board; send electronic postcards to friends, and play 'Matchmaker,' an online game matching boycrazycom members · with a Boy Crazy! 'boy"' This sounds like an open invitation for online predators and is shocking coming from the company that makes "Girl Power," a game promoting girls' attitude, spirit, loyalty and pride. Dads and Daughters (www.dadsanddaughters.org) has already called on the company to stop producing the cards. Readers who wish.to register their feelings about Boy Crazy! can write to Decipher, Inc. Chair and CEO Warren Holland at chairman&ceo@decipher.com , 253 Granby St., Norfolk, VA 23510; teL (757) 623-3600.
Gone to Carolina Just a note to thank you for sending me the copies of Voice Male. I have shared them with men from the Raleigh Mens Center (PO Box 6155, Raleigh, N.C. 27628) and the Men's Council of the Triad (Greensboro , N.C.). I am enclosing a personal donation m appreciation of all the MRCs work.
Frederick Whitmeyer The Men's Center of Raleigh & Wake County Raleigh, N.C.
Joe Kelly Dads and Daughters Duluth, Minn. Joe@dadsanddaughte rs.org
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