An excerpt from this article by Cathy Young: http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2011/04/_by_cathy_young_1.html Earlier this month, shortly after the announcement of a sexual harassment investigation targeting Yale University, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights issued a “Dear Colleague Letter” to colleges on the handling of sexual violence cases. On the same day, April 4, Vice President Joe Biden…
Read moreWhy the American Family-Court System is Broken
“To get divorced, you can’t just simply fill out a form that says ‘I’m divorced.’ You have to go to court and a judge has to approve the divorce,” says Divorce Corp’s Joe Sorge. “Breaking up is traumatic on its own, nevermind having to go to court and appear before a judge.” Sorge argues that…
Read moreIgnoring an Inequality Culprit: Single-Parent Families
Intellectuals fretting about income disparity are oddly silent regarding the decline of the two-parent family. An excerpt from this article: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303603904579493612156024266 Suppose a scientific conference on cancer prevention never addressed smoking, on the grounds that in a free society you can’t change private behavior, and anyway, maybe the statistical relationships between smoking and cancer are really…
Read moreBan Bossy: Does it have the facts straight?
Ban Bossy’s star-studded brigade to empower girls to lead has garnered lots of media attention. But does their leader, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, have all the facts? The Factual Feminist takes a closer look the data, and finds what we should really be banning is poor research.
Read moreThe Everyday Sexism campaign risks making all sexual advances ‘misogynist’
The campaign against everyday sexism has shown that a deeply unpleasant vein of misogyny still runs through our society. But in highlighting the antisocial, misguided behaviour of some unreconstructed individuals, it is important to be aware that such behaviour is not representative of most men’s attitudes. More worryingly, from the perspective of a progressive sexual…
Read moreYoga pants are not a civil right
Kirsten Powers writes something smart in the USA Today about the so-called ban on yoga pants at Haven Middle School in Evanston, Il. This is what feminism has come to: fighting for the right to wear yoga pants and leggings to middle school. This pressing civil rights issue made headlines when girls in Evanston, Ill.,…
Read moreWhy Is Discussion of Boys and Men Opposed?
An excerpt from this article: http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/why-is-discussion-of-boys-and-men-opposed/?utm_source=feedly&utm_reader=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-is-discussion-of-boys-and-men-opposed This past week Professor Janice Fiamengo of the University of Ottawa was heckled (at Queens University) and, the next night, forced to stop speaking (at the University of Ottawa) because of the topic of her lecture: boys and men in contemporary society. Why is the topic considered dangerous enough to be met…
Read moreThe Independent Thinker
I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American,” he said. “That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about…
Read moreWAR ON WOMEN – Ooops! What? It’s not true?
It appears that journalists are now too lazy to make up their own stories and are filing reports based on Facebook memes. The Story of a Non-Story How a bunch of media outlets got their coverage of an obscure Massachusetts bill really, really wrong. An excerpt from this article: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/03/24/non-story-massachusetts-divorce-sex-in-house-bill/ This lengthy and meandering tale…
Read moreObama Cares
This is someone off topic for me since my blog is dedicated towards fatherhood and issues surrounding men and boys in our new millennium…but…I have some thoughts. So I heard 30 million were supposedly uninsured a few years ago. 5 million are enrolled (supposedly). Are the other 25 million going to pay the penalty, I…
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