The National Organization for Women has launched a campaign to discredit the men's Christian group that calls itself the Promise Keepers. Evoking many of the sentiments that launched the Million Men's March and the more therapeutic aspects of the men's movement, the group urges men to be honest, respectful, nonviolent, and open in their emotions towards their wives, while deploring broken families as a way men abdicate their adult role of leading their families. But according to NOW, this traditional leadership role is inherently sexist. President Patricia Ireland characterizes the Promise Keepers as "a stealth political group formed by people who think the former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed is too liberal." In an article in Ms., Donna Minkowitz also commented that the group suffered from "the fantasy of benevolent domination." At NOW's annual convention, a resolution supporting greater involvement of fathers in family life that declared that men have feelings too was voted down.

Soon after, NOW's conservative counterpart, Concerned Women for America, joined the Southern Baptist Convention's boycott against the Disney empire for its "anti-Christian and anti-moral themes." The group cited the 1940 film "Fantasia, which heightened the awareness of witchcraft as Mickey Mouse played the sorcerer's apprentice. In one scene Mickey conjured up the broomstick to clean the floor, clearly denying God's command to use divination." Spokeswoman Paula Govers also objected to the outfit worn by the cartoon heroine in The Little Mermaid: "She's wearing two tiny little seashells. What are they telling our little girls?"

[Ed.: A Stanford graduate student writing his thesis on patriarchal behavior in animated films announced to a dorm meeting that the same film was "sexist" and "phallocentric."]

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