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To: sammy™ -_- who wrote (51625)	1/26/2006 5:06:40 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

I remember a sienfeld episode about that - why do men need to think they pleased thier ho to feel proud? a quick joke - one of my friends about 5foot 2 walked in the bedroom with a girl he met at a bar that night - she saw his small joystick and laughed and said who are you gonna please with that - he said ME - you are on your own sweety - BWAHAHA - he had no delusions that a successful sexual encounter should be weighed on pleasing the partner - he was a selfish bastard - HAHA! Fake away baby! DJ Free Trade Hurts Latin American Womens' Rights -Activists . CARACAS (AP)--Activists at the massive World Social Forum turned their criticism Thursday to obstacles faced by poor women in Latin America, saying they are the main, often-unheard victims of globalization. Several women's rights groups said moves toward free trade are undermining the position of women in a region where machismo is entrenched, domestic violence is a problem and governments have often taken hard-line stances against abortion. "Poor women are not the same as poor men," said activist Francini Mestrun at an event organized by the Brazil-based Latin American Network of Women Transforming the Economy. Some argued open-market policies have hurt Latin American economic sectors such as agriculture that employ large percentages of women. Participants at the six-day conference, which has drawn more than 60,000 people from around the world, also called for U.N. peacekeepers to leave Haiti, demanded poor countries' debt be forgiven and backed Cuban leader Fidel Castro's proposal for a permanent "anti-terrorism" tribunal to battle U.S. abuses against poor countries. Women's issues also have won increasing attention among anti-globalization activists. Rosana Heringer, a coordinator in Brazil for ActionAid International, said water privatization - an issue that has caused violent protests in Bolivia and Guatemala - especially affects women, who are often responsible for finding access to water in poor communities not served by profit-driven water utilities. Latin American and Caribbean countries have also increasingly turned to tourism as a primary source of income, spawning a booming sex trade that has turned the trafficking of women into a profitable crime, some leading activists said. Others criticized a tendency toward part-time jobs that they argued has given companies an excuse to remove health care and other benefits from women. Concepcion La Agua, a 45-year-old Indian leader from Ecuador, said the many problems faced by the region's women are all rooted in the mentality that "we are only good for having children, for being maids in the house and for being servile in the home." Juana Vasquez, 61, a Maya Sacapulteca woman from Guatemala, warned against blaming the problem on globalization or other outside influences, saying Latin America has to face up to what she called endemic abuse and aggression toward women. Citing a Mayan creation myth that recounts the birth of life equally from four women and four men, she said: "How do we combat this? We return to our cultural roots; that's where the answer lies."