Re: "Women in Croatia"

[Katha Pollitt <kpollitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You might be interested to know that the "five witches" eventually won
their libel suit against their media attackers.  Vesna Kesic is a friend
of mine -- she won a modest amount by US standards, but enough to move
to New York, where she is getting a master's degree at the New School.
 Kareta, the conservative women's org mentioned in Yoshie's post, is the
organization that  --yes -- Catharine MacKinnon allied herself with when
she got involved in Bosnian rape politics.  Kareta argued that only
Serbs committed rape and sexual atrocities against women -- as of course
they would say, being Croatian nationalists.  MacKinnon accepted this
distortion of reality -- which was particularly strange given
macKinnon's own oft-expressed beliefs about the prevalence of rape, and
its pervasiveness in even the most peaceful of times. Apparently
Croatian and Muslim soldiers and paramilitaries rape their wives and
girlfriends and strangers on the street at home, but not women of other
ethnicities in wartime!
  After Slavenka Draculic published an article about bosnian war rape
victims in the Nation, we got a letter from kareta calling her a
"pornographer" because she wrote political journalism for a Yugoslav
magazine that published sexy photos of women. These are MacKinnon's
allies. Truly sickening.

Katha